Inside NYFW: Revisiting a Conversation with Luar's Raul Lopez
The Run-Through with Vogue
Vogue
4.1 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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On day five of The Run-Through’s NYFW Shark Week coverage, we revisit an interview with Luar’s Raul Lopez. Chioma and Raul discuss his beginnings in fashion (co-founding Hood By Air with Shayne Oliver), the Ana bag (the bag everyone is wearing), and what it feels like closing NYFW.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a run through. I'm Chomunardi. And I'm Chloe Mal. And this is our Shark Week day five. |
| 0:08.8 | Choma, I'm so excited that we get to revisit your amazing interview with Raoul Lopez, the designer of beloved brand Lua. You went to his design studio in, is it, Industry City in Brooklyn, last winter. And I love your |
| 0:24.6 | origin story. Tell us how you and Raoul met. Oh my goodness. I mean, he was a baby. He was still a |
| 0:30.3 | teenager. And I remember at the time he was one half of Hood by Air with Shane Oliver, |
| 0:38.5 | and I remember taking a photograph of them both on the Lower East Side |
| 0:42.4 | because I was vlogging about. |
| 0:44.8 | And yeah, he had the spark back then, you know. |
| 0:47.9 | They were making T-shirts and it was super low-fi. |
| 0:50.3 | He must have been a baby. |
| 0:51.7 | Yeah, he was maybe 1918. |
| 0:53.5 | Wow. |
| 0:54.8 | But, you know, fast forward to 2017, and he founded his own brand, and he's, you know, |
| 1:00.5 | his bags have been a runaway hit. |
| 1:03.9 | I think I see those bags everywhere. |
| 1:07.7 | They have become a real hero product, if you will. |
| 1:11.7 | Yes, and the Anna bag, which is the It Bag that we're seeing everywhere, was named after his mother. |
| 1:17.0 | And it kind of represents all of the women in his family. |
| 1:19.5 | Not our mother? |
| 1:20.5 | Not our mother. |
| 1:21.8 | No. |
| 1:23.9 | And this year he will be closing New York Fashion Week for the second time. That's exciting. So, yeah, we went to his studio earlier this year he will be closing New York Fashion Week for the second time. |
| 1:28.3 | That's exciting. |
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