Rachel Comey Turns Twenty-Five, Still Independent, Still Herself

Twenty-five years is a long run for a label that never traded its name to a bigger house, and Rachel Comey is marking it with a runway show of her own making. Ahead of that show, the designer is doing the kind of stock-taking a quarter-century earns — what it took to build this on her own terms, and what she still wants to say next. There's no parent company sharing the credit here, no conglomerate logo in fine print, just the label she started and kept running herself. And true to form, she's using the anniversary to look forward as much as back, treating twenty-five years as a starting point rather than a lap of honor.

With reporting from Harper's Bazaar.