Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Courtesy of Diotima, Luar, Zankov, Colleen Allen None of the references were quite literal. Raul Lopez of Luar and Rachel Scott, whose four-year-old label is called Diotima, were both thinking of Carnival in the Caribbean, which has its roots in colonial oppression and how enslaved persons reacted with a defiant,…
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Jay Guapo Dressed in a dark-wash denim set with a colorful, brushstroke pattern and black mesh gloves, Jay Guapõ, New York City’s prince of TikTok, hit the Luar runway. He’d teased the moment to his 3.3 million followers a couple of days prior with a frantic mini-vlog during his fitting…
Photo: https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/bc9/852/afe640db065e2a5719202dd7afe6fc11f9-onijah-robinson-luar.png Remember the viral American woman in Pakistan earlier this year? Onijah Andrew Robinson is a New Yorker who flew to Pakistan at the end of 2024 to marry a 19-year-old she met online. She refused to leave the country and was demanding money. We don’t know if she ever got that money, but when…