Heirlome Tag

For Stephanie Suberville, heirlooms are greater than just physical objects. They include things just like the knowledge of craftspeople in her native Mexico. “These traditions are their heirlooms as they pass down the knowledge from one generation to the following,” the designer told WWD, but “their art is increasingly expensive, time consuming and never easily shipped, so there are less and fewer of them around.”   Wanting to share that work with a bigger audience led Suberville to quit working for brands like Rag & Bone and La Ligne and establish her own line in 2022. A mixture of “heir” and “lome-” meaning tool in middle-English, she selected the name as a mirrored image of her mission: each season spotlights a...