Foo and Foo, a Streetwear Label by Tommy Hilfiger’s Daughter, Is Coming to a Pop-Up Near You
Elizabeth Hilfiger (yes, that’s Tommy Hilfiger’s daughter) started the label Foo and Foo in 2016 as a grunge-tinged line of hoodies and T-shirts punctured with piercing rings. Now she’s just shown her Fall 2018 collection, her first presentation, in the gymnasium of the Lower East Side’s Manny Cantor community wellness center, transforming it into a makeshift classroom. Here, the concept was a bit more sophisticated than piercings and was instead based on mathematics. “It’s all about the physics of the hoodies and how cloth interacts with friction, and that leads into Newton’s law,” said Hilfiger. “The graphic hoodies are about sine and cosine waves, which was the only type of math that I understand.” Models sat at desks, playing the role of disobedient students among crumpled-up test papers and soda cans, wearing the Foo and Foo garb. Attendees included a bevy of downtown It kids, including Walter Pearce of Midland Agency, who also cast the show, and Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta of