Proenza Schouler

ACT DA FOOL a film by HARMONY KORINE for PROENZA SCHOULER text by JACK McCOLLOUGH & LAZARO HERNANDEZ Poem and original artworks on film stills by HARMONY KORINE Styling by MEL OTTEMBERG   When we were working on our last collection, we looked back to a very specific time in our lives — a time when the adult world was starting to trickle in, but when the fearlessness of youth was still very much present within us. We were naïve, but brave; awkward, but confident. Many people have described what growing up in America was like in those days, but for many of us, no one captured the essence of it as accurately as Harmony Korine. Harmony’s film, Kids (1995), defines a pivotal moment in our lives, weaving a neat narrative of all the things we were seeing and experiencing around us. More importantly, Kids gave that moment a definitive esthetic…