A candle lit yoga studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn bent the curtains for a narrative collection of clothing. The American Beauty Pageant, is an air castle, dogmatically American. Dripping in glitter and dreaming with the utility of a crown mounted on your head, that’s the moment this visual anthology embraces.
Boyfriend and girlfriend duo Meredith Boscaino and Beau Karabel are the brainchildren of this line. Between cocktails, deviled eggs and sushi AMMO spoke to the two designers. Both designers have backgrounds that are really influenced by textile design, helping to set the foundation for Hazore.
“Really it was both of our love for clothes,” Beau said. Both designers are inspired by the work of Christopher Kane and Lee McQueen. Pulling from the past and present their artistic incline is stimulated by Wizard motorcycle gangs, Magna, 90’s fashion runway music, acid washed anything.
A Little Miss Hazore Dress, Dream Queen overalls, and Googly Eyed Fortress dress and shirt dangled on the wall. Beau spoke about how he came up with the name Hazore.
“Well it started off with my great grandmother she would always call me a little Hazore at the dinner table, so it was more of a love. But later on seeing it in little pig and scareface, it kind of made more sense and sounded a little bit more edgy, in time I just fell in love with it,” Beau said.
The designers noticed things that were a bit overdone and tried to think beyond this perception of art.
“I just wanted to keep good negative space. And really it’s the concept its all about American beauty pageant.”
The line later developed into Hazore, because Beau had outgrown “little.”
The designers will have a shoppable online pop-up shop available over the next couple of days.
Beau was born and raised in California and migrated to New York to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology. Meredith is a Connecticut native who came to California to attend Redlands University. The two recently moved to Brooklyn.
“I had to grow up sometime and we just went forward I think it was good to see it spelled differently,” Beau said.
By Priscilla Ward
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