Bach Mai Interview by Juno Kelley in Mission Magazine

Texan-born, Paris-trained designer Bach Mai made a splash when he released his inaugural collection earlier this year; an elegant, ready-to-wear formal line with couture leanings. When we speak on Zoom in early December, Mai is sitting in front of a mood board of various experimental fabrics he’s developing with his fabric partner, Hurel. Like his fabrics, Mai is effervescent, waxing lyrical about his encyclopedic knowledge of fashion, his experience working under John Galliano, and bursting with excitement for the collections to come. In the below interview, which has been edited for length and clarity, Bach Mai talks candidly about how Texas’s black-tie culture influenced his relationship with fashion.