Wearing Vaquera is a joyful experience. Slipping into the label’s pouffy, ten-tiered party dresses, big, blown-up tailoring or cartoonishly wide-legged denim evokes a childlike thrill – and that’s before you’ve perched one of its pillowy, bonnet-like derby hats or XXL bows on your head, or affixed a Vaquera stuffed teddy-bear key ring to your bag. The collections it has been putting out for almost a decade now are a rallying cry against the banal.
Founded in New York back in 2013 by Patric DiCaprio, with Bryn Taubensee, David Moses and Claire Sullivan entering the fold three years later,