Rachel Scott, at Proenza Schouler headquarters Photo: Courtesy of Proenza Schouler

After a summer of industry whispers, Rachel Scott, the beloved designer of Diotima , was named creative director at Proenza Schouler today, replacing brand founders Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, who left New York for Paris to head up Loewe, a post that was left vacant when Jonathan Anderson went to Dior.

Scott, who is 41 and Jamaican, is an industry veteran, with about two decades of experience in Milan and New York at labels as diverse as Costume National and J. Mendel, Elizabeth and James and Rachel Comey. “Most of my career, I was crafting brands that were not my perspective. That’s my training,” she says. Look at her trajectory another way, though, and she’s an overnight sensation, not all t

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