“That is one of the best thing that’s happened to us in years,” Gypsy Sport designer Rio Uribe said of his collaboration with Urban Outfitters, which can bring the Los Angeles brand’s genderless, glam, Chicano-inspired street style to its widest audience yet.
The 18-piece clothes and niknaks collection includes Gypsy Sport’s logo-print slipdress, sport mesh jersey and matching skirt with fringe, a black Neoprene volume-back jacket and matching pleated neoprene skirt, crossbody bags and hats.
“Urban Outfitters got here to us and said they’d wish to do something local and focused on L.A. with you and family and friends,” Uribe said of the six-month process. “I wish to design very genderless and experimental [looks] and so they are more industrial, corporate and mainstream so we had to search out common ground,” he explained of the resulting range, interpreted from his spring 2023 collection, which he showed at L.A. Fashion Week.
“We’re incredibly proud to be partnering with Rio and Gypsy Sport for the launch of their runway collection. Gypsy Sport is a brand rooted in self-expression, identity and community, and I’m so excited that we are able to offer this product to our customers who share those self same values. The assortment is exclusive and versatile, and most significantly, it’s for all,” said Dalila Shannon, Urban Outfitters’ divisional merchandise manager of ladies’s branded collaborations and head of diversity, equity and inclusion.
“The long-sleeved white shirt is one among my favorites since it has our logo throughout, which is my favorite design I actually have ever made,” said Uribe, explaining that the brand is supposed to represent a planet like Saturn, made from two baseball caps floating together. (A baseball cap was the brand’s first product.) “I also love the jacket,” he said, noting the quantity hints at Balenciaga, where he worked as a young designer.
The 14 styles are priced $50 to $395 and available on the Urban Outfitters’ website and on the Melrose Avenue Urban Outfitters store in L.A.
Uribe was a 2015 CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund finalist. “There may be a lot talent here and there are usually not enough Chicano and Mexican American people in fashion usually,” he told WWD. “I’m going to try to vary that.”
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