{"id":362029,"date":"2025-11-07T11:06:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/362029\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:06:21","slug":"with-a-new-exhibition-daryl-kerrigan-brings-downtown-cool-to-upstate-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/362029\/","title":{"rendered":"With a New Exhibition Daryl Kerrigan Brings Downtown Cool to Upstate New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the start, Daryl K\u2019s big draw was a good-fitting pant\u2014be that lowrider boot-cut jeans, baggy models, or signature second-skin leather leggings. Speaking with Vogue in 2012<\/a>, Kerrigan joked that her label could be called \u201cPants-R-Us.\u201d It was the desire to find the perfect pant and a great jacket\u201d that spurred her into business in the first place,\u201d she recalled recently. Going through her archives while prepping the exhibition has proven, she noted, the longevity, reach, and relevancy of her work.<\/p>\n

Kerrigan was known for an edgy downtown cool\u2014Sonic Youth\u2019s Kim Gordon was an early fan\u2014yet she asserts that what was once niche has since gone global. \u201cThis concept of downtown and cool, it reached everybody, I think. Along with iPhones [came] the commodification of cool. What\u2019s interesting,\u201d she continued, \u201cis that everything that I created\u2014not everything, but so many things\u2014just became part of the vocabulary of fashion, [like] stretch leather leggings [which are] a ubiquitous style now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibition organizes Kerrigan\u2019s work into four themes: New York, Rebel, Woman, and I Am My Muse. The last is especially topical as it intersects with a larger discussion about the lack of visibility of female designers in an industry catering to women. Kerrigan, always her own fit model, believes that clothes have to move with and work for a woman. A successful garment, in her book, is one that\u2019s made for life not just to look at. Below, Kerrigan talks about her exhibition and why the \u201990s are so right for now.<\/p>\n

Does being an independent designer mean something different today than when you started out?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I would say the basis is the same: You want to express your own ideas and not be influenced by anybody or judged by anybody; you can say what you want and say exactly what you feel. I think that is the essence of being an independent designer, independent in the way that you\u2019re not being owned by anyone else\u2019s ideas of what you should say.<\/p>\n

It feels like the big brands are taking up more and more in space.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I look at my own collection, my exhibition here, and I look at what I have from then in terms of what I see that\u2019s new, and it just made me consider that, yes, I feel like my spirit of yesterday still goes with what they are staying today; it hasn\u2019t faded, it hasn\u2019t diminished. That is one thing I know that I have. It felt good. I don\u2019t know who the big brands really represent anymore, they\u2019re just outfits that are not really sexy. I think I am representing what people\u2014women\u2014actually want to wear, regardless of their age. I mean, fashion has for so long just distanced itself from the actual woman. We know that so many people have an issue with that. Female designers are not in there designing for the females.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the start, Daryl K\u2019s big draw was a good-fitting pant\u2014be that lowrider boot-cut jeans, baggy models, or…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":362030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,175685,2678,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-362029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-daryl-k","10":"tag-exhibitions","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115508097197487245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}