“As a gay man, these are all really important places.”įor Opening Ceremony’s Pride capsule collection, Mr.
“For this Pride, I thought it would be a really good time to celebrate a lot of these founding places,” said Humberto Leon, Opening Ceremony’s co-founder, speaking by phone from Paris, where he will show the new Kenzo men’s collection next week. This year’s collection, a celebration of New York’s historic gay bars, was well underway when the June 12 terrorist attack at Pulse, an Orlando, Fla., gay club, provided a chilling reminder of how crucial such clubs are as all-too-rare and fragile safe spaces for generations of gay men and women. For years, Opening Ceremony, the pioneering New York concept store, has produced special collections for LGBT Pride Month.
