Fresh off a triumphant New York Fashion Week debut, Marcus Allen and his label, the Society Archive, are the newest darlings of the fashion world

By Biz Sherbert

Marcus Allen never stuck to one lunch table in the high-school cafeteria—he floated between groups, as friendly with the jocks as he was with the art kids. “I had a squad at each table,” he told me as we sat in a sunny Nolita workroom a day before his runway debut for New York Fashion Week back in September. (More on that triumph later.) It’s a brief anecdote, but it’s telling of the brand he’s built today: the Society Archive, a cult New York vintage studio turned design house that marries the preppy style of the jocks with the creative irreverence of the art kids. READ ON