Photography by Francesca Allen

EMMA CHOPOVA & LAURA LOWENA

ALCHEMIST | Creative Directors

While their safety-pin skirt has itself reached icon status, the Chopova Lowena founders and creative directors' entire line has ushered a punk sensibility back into the fashion mainstream with a distinctly sustainable ethos.

WHAT IS YOUR TRADEMARK?
Carabiners!

WHAT KEEPS YOU UP AT NIGHT?
Production orders, pleats, clips, ideas, our dogs, and crying babies.

WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE, WHAT WERE YOU KNOWN FOR?
Emma Chopova: Drama. Laura Lowena: Dogs and dolphins.

WHAT’S COMING UP FOR YOU IN 2025?
More exciting things in the fragrance world, a lot of trips, a team trip to Bulgaria, twins turning one, shoes, shoes, shoes, bags, bags, bags, and a runway show.

“Warpaint gets us through everything, Addison Rae’s “Aquamarine” got us through last season. ”

WHAT’S SOMETHING PEOPLE GET WRONG ABOUT YOU?
That we only make skirts.

NAME AN INFLUENCE OF YOURS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE PEOPLE.
 Rock climbing was key to starting our brand.

WHO DO YOU CALL THE MOST?
Kamen Chopov, Emma’s dad.

WHAT’S ONE BOOK, WORK OF ART, OR FILM THAT GOT YOU THROUGH AN IMPORTANT MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE?
 Warpaint gets us through everything, Addison Rae’s “Aquamarine” got us through last season

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