Willy Chavarria promotes fashion students for fashion students during the talk

Since he launched his mark in 2015, Willy Chavarria has earned the reputation of organizing a show that invites reflection and a tremendously expressive show. Therefore, it is not surprising that during a conversation in Parsons School of Design organized by the fashion veteran (and the fault fairy of the de facto fashion) and the member of the Parsons Board, Julie Gilhart, a guest, a fan who knows the designer's inclination for the street casting, audition for the next Willy program on the floor of the Auditorium of Tishman. The design school will honor Chavarria in the 76th annual benefit of Parsons on May 20, 2025.

Fashionnetwork.com was there to witness the discussion among industry veterans. Based on the group of students who asked questions, Chavarria greatly inspired the next generation of designers, Latin and other, with their brand spirit to “raise people, make people feel good and to celebrate human dignity as their base.”

“Unfortunately, many brands neglect to have a point of view in the world, which can be risky scholary of how divided and divisive the ideologies are, whether left or right There's no point of view.

That said, being provocative has limits if you want to sell clothes. “I am executing and growing a business, and I think you can take a position on humanity and still do a business. At some point, I think we all have the decision to live in the world: whether we live in the city or pick up weapons and fight somewhere.

He also suggested something that the administration could consider. “There is a corporate word, emotional maturity. But there is an emotional maturity that I am surprised that they do not teach you in school. It comes with how you work with others and interact, which only comes with experience. I learned that, and I am still learning that,” he added. “I loved everything I learned at school and I feel lucky about it, but I learned a lot in the workforce. Those two things will make you very rounded and full.” The designer also remembered having heard the deceased Willi Smith give a talk as a student.

Chavarria is also a defender of the traditional property/launch route of the brand: “I did not start my own brand until I was 47 years The guilt, and is not the guilt.

“There is nothing worse to see people who think they know everything they try to do so and simply not exercise, lose money and waste time and not have the growth for which you might need to be able to take failure. Although failure is not exactly what I believe, failure is part of good and success. You have to fall and go up again,” he continued.

Staffing a team is also part of Chavarria's work, which has a homonym label, and gave the young crowd some hiring tips. “I am looking for talent; I am looking for integrity. I am looking for the opposite of laziness. I hate laziness. I look for good people. We have a fairly good study environment. If someone is a hole **, they do not last,” he said.

The next generation may not be so linked to traditional genres, but Chavarria advises that many fashion purchase offices are. “The system is so deeply structured with gender identities that we have collections of men and women, stores of men and women, and the design of men and women. It is a challenge of a great commercial perspective to sell things that are sold in different places. But for most, my collections are for those who want to use them,” he said, pointing out that he designates the collection in several groups according to who is more designed for.

“There is diversity in my brand, personal, community and family chosen. Whether male, female, queer or trans, the general theme is love. The message can be Latin, queen and chicano and these different varieties of things, but it is really a bigger voice of love; I really believe that love is the global message,” he continued.

He warned students that there will always be challenges, but with experience comes better navigation. “You learn to improve to administer them. It was always financial because I am self -financed; I do not come from generation And the aesthetics that occurred before the commercial part was together, and continued to press it, “he emphasized.

The talk also foreseen clips of two of the recent Chavarria film programs, “Safe from Harm” and “Tarantula”, which was the first show of the designer in Paris (although he promised that his roots are in New York).

The last film presented a clip with a recording of the plea of ​​Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump and his administration so as not to vilipendiar or, what is worse, to the illegal immigrants who do the growing work that US citizens do not wish even to demonize the LGBTQ community, which includes relatives and children. “We can be brave and still loving, good and full of joy, but we have to be strong. We are seeing that the world changes to one who is oppressive and works only to strip us of our identities,” Chavarria warned.

Chavarria described his education in a Mexican city and in a Mexican -American home of traditional values ​​that hung an image of the champion of agricultural workers César Chávez. As a birracial queer person, “it was already very different from this context,” he said, adding his introverted nature, observing from abroad, helped foster his visual creativity.

“I give my family credit with my commitment to my work and have a path to social justice. It was important for me Beautiful, since we are in the media.