So said an industry friend as we chatted waiting for a show to start at New York Fashion Week.
Hanging in the designers Brooklyn studio is a tailored overcoat that resembles a bag stuffed with colorful confetti.
The whole thing is five layers.
Photo: Noua Unu Studio / Courtesy of Aubero
The Aubero confetti-esque coat in question.
Vintage embroidered silk encased in a jacket.
Aubero has translated his use of scrap fabric into playlful trompe loeil patchworks.
The Aubero confetti-esque coat in question.
The California-born Louie, 39, launched Aubero in 2022.
Louie has over a decade of experience working for other brands under his belt.
He studied architecture at The Cooper Union, but internships atImitation of ChristandCalvin Kleinled to a career in fashion.
Louie created this zine to present at the LVMH Prize semifinals in Paris.
When at the latter, then designerFrancisco Costatook Louie under his wing, selecting him forVogueItalias Protege Project.
The name Aubero is a riff of Oberon, the king of fairies in William ShakespearesA Midsummer Nights Dream.
(The label was named Oberon initially, though Louie changed it for trademark purposes.)
Aubero, fall 2024.
The idea is not to destroy vintage pieces or erase their history, but to preserve it.
Disintegrating silk encased in a pair of shorts.
Louie created this zine to present at the LVMH Prize semifinals in Paris.
Aubero, fall 2024.
Aubero, fall 2024.
Louie describes Aubero as a laboratory approach at working with material that is unwearable and unusable.
Theres so much freedom in the scale of the project right now, said Louie.
With a brand like this, I can do pieces that are labor intensive and in limited quantities.
