Category Archives: William Gaylord

American Chic

Posted July 22, 2015. Filed in Angelo Donghia, Arthur Smith, Benjamin Vandiver, Bill Blass, Billy Baldwin, Bruce Budd, Daniel Romauldez, David Kleinberg, David Netto, Geoffrey Beene, George Stacey, Haynes Roberts, James Huniford, Jeffrey Bilhuber, John Dickinson, Kalef Alaton, Kevin McNamara, Mark Hampton, Michael Taylor, Parish-Hadley, Richard Lowell Neas, Sills & Huniford, Stephen Sills, Thomas Morrow, Tom Scheerer, Van Day Truex, Vicente Wolf, William Gaylord

What is American Chic? For me, it has always been about effortless style. The kind of style that doesn’t shout “Look at me!” A style that is crisp and classic, balanced, often times understated yet always sophisticated, subtle and artfully layered, unfettered by excessive decor and, above all else, timeless. A style that honors the […]

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Throwback Thursday: William Gaylord

Posted July 24, 2014. Filed in American Chic, Classic Contemporary, The California Look, William Gaylord

Today’s Throwback Thursday post features a long-standing favorite designer of mine from the 1970’s, William Gaylord. His style defined the clean, crisp, classic and contemporary aesthetic of California design at the time, a style that would usher in a new American chic with the advent of the California Look, made popular by Michael Taylor. For […]

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