Public School's 2016 Spring/Summer Campaign Honors Photographer Peter Hujar

Public School honors late photographer, Peter Hujar, for its 2016 spring/summer campaign — his stark, intimate photographs in black-and-white tonalities were often rooted in, and celebrated, the ’80s after hours-scene of downtown New York.

This campaign finds inspiration in Hujar’s highly personal portraits of his bohemian friends — a perfect accompaniment for Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne’s tomboy take on feminine silhouettes. Portraits are juxtaposed against sandstone-colored shots of a car — according to the designers, “the pairing of the broken-down car against the collection was meant to showcase the extremes between the overtly feminine and refined theme of our spring collection, and pair it against the really strong and interesting casting of our friends, models, and artists.”