is home for the holidays, sitting on the front steps of his mother’s house in California. Bathed in winter sun, his back to the front door, the designer ponders his beginnings in fashion. Decades before the 2015 launch of his eponymous label, whose Spring/Summer 2023 show,, has been much discussed in a rash of articles lauding its tailoring, casting and starry guestlist, Chavarria was working at a cycling-apparel company in his home state.
Chavarria chose the ornate landmark for its links to diverse communities: same-sex marriages are carried out here and it recently hosted a talk by La Posada Providencia, an organisation helping immigrants and refugees – a welcome contrast to the wedding of Donald and Ivana Trump, which was held here in 1977.