Elena Velez
{{short description|American fashion designer, artist (born 1994)}}
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Elena Velez is an American fashion designer and creative from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, based in New York City.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elenavelez.com/connect|title=statement {{!}} contact|website=elenavelez|language=en|access-date=2020-03-07|archive-date=2020-08-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812071316/https://www.elenavelez.com/connect|url-status=dead}} Her work is known for its synthesis of metalsmith and high fashion and has been featured in the V&A Museum{{Cite web |last=Rodgers |first=Daniel |date=2024-07-01 |title=Taylor Swift Has Left The UK (For Now), But 16 Of Her Outfits Stayed Behind |url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/taylor-swift-victoria-albert-museum-exhibition |access-date=2024-07-03 |website=British Vogue |language=en-GB}} and Barbican Centre.{{Cite web |title=Barbican announces major fashion exhibition 'Dirty Looks' and a new Curve commission by Lucy Raven {{!}} Barbican |url=https://www.barbican.org.uk/our-story/press-room/barbican-announces-major-fashion-exhibition-dirty-looks-and-a-new-curve |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=www.barbican.org.uk |language=en}}
Described by Vogue as "explosive and aggressive",{{Cite web |date=2023-02-14 |title=Elena Velez Fall 2023 Ready-to-Wear Collection |url=https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2023-ready-to-wear/elena-velez |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}} Velez's work has been inspired by the historic craftsmanship and manufacturing legacy of the American Rust Belt and is the product of collaboration with local metalsmith artisans to revisit the regional craft.{{Cite web |last=Hauer |first=Sarah |title=This Milwaukee native has designed clothes for Ariana Grande, Halsey and Solange even before finishing school |url=https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2019/11/25/elena-velez-has-designed-clothes-arianna-grande-halsey-solange/4182418002/ |access-date=2020-03-07 |website=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |language=en}} Central themes in her work include deconstruction,{{Cite web |date=2018-07-24 |title=The Puerto Rican Designer Finding Inspiration in War-Torn Society |url=https://www.papermag.com/elena-velez-2589557674.html |access-date=2020-03-07 |website=PAPER |language=en}} unconventional & complicated femininity,{{Cite web |title=vessel |url=https://www.elenavelez.com/vessel |access-date=2020-03-07 |website=elenavelez |language=en |archive-date=2020-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812054202/https://www.elenavelez.com/vessel |url-status=dead}} and alternative construction methods, which include "salvaged" and "site-specific materiality."{{Cite web |title=_and carry on |url=https://www.elenavelez.com/look-book |access-date=2020-03-07 |website=elenavelez |language=en |archive-date=2020-09-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921060458/https://www.elenavelez.com/look-book |url-status=dead }} Velez coins her visual identity as "aggressively delicate" and "anti-fragile".
Velez is on the Dazed 100 List,{{Cite web |last=Dazed |title=Dazed 100 {{!}} Dazed |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/dazed100 |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=www.dazeddigital.com |language=en}} the winner of the 2022 CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund,{{Cite web |title=Judy Turner, Elena Velez Among 2022 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Finalists |url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/news/luxury/judy-turner-elena-velez-among-2022-cfdavogue-fashion-fund-finalists/ |access-date=2022-05-02 |website=The Business of Fashion |date=26 April 2022 |language=en}} the 2022 CFDA Emerging Designer of the Year, is a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and a semi finalist for the 2024 LVMH Prize.{{Cite web |title=Elena Velez |url=https://www.lvmhprize.com/designer/elena-velez/ |access-date=2024-02-24 |website=LVMH PRIZE}} Velez is a creative fellow of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism.{{Cite web |title=Elena Velez – FAIR |url=https://www.fairforall.org/profile/elena-velez/ |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=www.fairforall.org |language=en-US}} However, several have noted her far-right associations, and she was photographed at MAGA inauguration events.{{cite web |title=How far-right views became the new edgy aesthetic |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/57309/1/edgelords-far-right-views-kanye-west-dimes-square-urbit |website=Dazed |language=en |date=28 October 2022}}{{Cite web |date=2023-09-19 |title=What I Saw at the Longhouse Fashion Show {{!}} Justin Lee |url=https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2023/09/what-i-saw-at-the-longhouse-fashion-show |access-date=2024-01-08 |website=First Things |language=en}}https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/fashion-week/elena-velez-brings-dimes-square-and-its-controversial-politics-to-fashion-week/
Early life and education
Of Puerto Rican heritage but raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Velez claims in recent interviews that the "industrial" nature of her "nontraditional upbringing" as the only child to a single mother who is a ship's captain on the Great Lakes influenced her current artistic identity, which she says draws heavily on "the relationship between femininity and force".{{Cite web |last=Hairston |first=Tahirah |date=10 September 2019 |title=Meet The Designer Challenging The Idea of Femininity With Her Utilitarian Designs |url=https://www.teenvogue.com/story/elena-velez-teen-vogue-generation-next |access-date=2020-03-07 |website=Teen Vogue |language=en}} With a beginning interest in design from early childhood, the first documentation of her developments appear in local TV news as a teenager in 2010.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= 27 March 2010|title=Elena Velez - Teenage Fashion Designer |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp-XDVexVhQ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170715131809/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp-XDVexVhQ |archive-date=2017-07-15 |access-date= |website=YouTube}}
Velez studied at Parsons Paris from 2013 to 2015 and graduated from Parsons School of Design in 2018{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=2018 ELENA VELEZ |url=https://parsons.edu/bfafashion/2018-elena-velez/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511232627/https://parsons.edu/bfafashion/2018-elena-velez/ |archive-date=2021-05-11 |access-date= |website=Parsons School of Design}} with a BFA in fashion design and minor in creative entrepreneurship. Additionally in 2020 she received a Graduate Diploma in fashion design from Central Saint Martins in London. Her BFA thesis collection was shown at VFILES Season 10 Runway,{{Cite web |date=6 September 2018 |title=VFiles Spring 2019 Ready-to-Wear Fashion Show |url=https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/spring-2019-ready-to-wear/vfiles |access-date=2020-03-07 |website=Vogue |language=en}} and London Fashion Week, as a guest of the Swedish Fashion Council.{{Cite web |last=Wightman-Stone |first=Danielle |date=2018-09-11 |title=First Challenge the Fabric Award to launch at LFW |url=https://fashionunited.uk/news/fashion/first-challenge-the-fabric-award-to-launch-at-lfw/2018091138785 |access-date=2020-03-07 |website=fashionunited.uk |language=en-gb}}
Velez was first named by I-D Magazine in 2018 as "one of five under the radar designers to discover at New York Fashion Week" after first gaining viral success on VFILES Runway.{{Cite web |last=Ongley |first=Hannah |date=2018-09-05 |title=5 under-the-radar designers to discover at nyfw |url=https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/a3q5jk/new-york-fashion-week-best-young-designers |access-date=2020-03-07 |website=i-D |language=en}}
In 2019 Velez's work was exhibited as a Teen Vogue 2019 Generation Next designer curated by Editor in Chief of Vogue Anna Wintour and she was referred to by the Editor in Chief of The Cut, Lindsey Peoples, as “a designer representing the future of fashion”.{{Cite web|url=https://www.teenvogue.com/story/teen-vogue-generation-next-nyfw|title=Meet Teen Vogue's Generation Next — 6 Designers That Represent the Future of Fashion|last=Hairston|first=Tahirah|website=Teen Vogue|date=22 August 2019 |language=en|access-date=2020-03-07}} Her work has received coverage in Business of Fashion,{{Cite web|title=How Elena Velez Is Turning Buzz Into a Business|url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/entrepreneurship/how-elena-velez-is-turning-buzz-into-a-business/|access-date=2022-01-05|website=The Business of Fashion|date=22 December 2021 |language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/news-analysis/vfiles-names-participating-designers-and-launches-own-line-paul-cupo|title=VFiles Names Participating Designers and Launches Own Line|date=2018-08-09|website=The Business of Fashion|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-03-07}} Women's Wear Daily,{{Cite web|url=https://wwd.com/runway/spring-ready-to-wear-2019/new-york/vfiles/review/|title=VFiles RTW Spring 2019|last=Mercer|first=Emily|date=2018-09-06|website=WWD|language=en|access-date=2020-03-07}} WGSN,{{Cite web|url=https://www.wgsn.com/en/login/|title=User Login {{!}} WGSN {{!}} Creating Tomorrow|website=WGSN {{!}} Creating Tomorrow {{!}} Trend Forecasting & Analytics|access-date=2020-03-07}}{{Cite web|url=https://vogue.ua/article/beauty/byuti-gid/snyatsya-li-androidam-elektroovcy-novaya-byuti-semka-vogue-ua.html|title=Снятся ли андроидам электроовцы? – новая бьюти-съемка Vogue UA|last=|website=Vogue UA|date=November 2019 |access-date=2020-03-07}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/41238/1/vfiles-nyfw-lil-kim-atrak-fashion-week-show-designers-brooklyn-ss19|title=VFiles kicks off NYFW with Lil' Kim, a kiss cam, and its debut RTW line|last=|date=2018-09-06|website=Dazed|language=en|access-date=2020-03-07}} Numero Berlin,{{Cite web |date=2019-07-19 |title=Solange Knowles covers Numéro Berlin Spring/Summer 2019 by Marcus Cooper |url=https://www.fashionotography.com/solange-knowles-covers-numero-berlin-spring-summer-2019-by-marcus-cooper/ |access-date=2020-03-07 |website=fashionotography |language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=http://officemagazine.net/aggressively-delicate|title=Aggressively Delicate|date=2020-01-29|website=Office Magazine|language=en|access-date=2020-03-07}}{{Cite web|title=CFDA|url=https://cfda.com/news/cfda-pvh-release-the-state-of-diversity-equity-inclusion-in-fashion-study-report|access-date=2021-02-02|website=cfda.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://schonmagazine.com/ultraterrena/|title=ultraterrena|website=Schön! Magazine|date=15 August 2018 |language=en-GB|access-date=2020-03-07}}{{Cite web|title=Power, not fantasy: The young designers using lingerie as inspiration|url=https://www.cnn.com/style/article/lingerie-fashion-velez-dojaka-odwyer/index.html|first=Helen |last=Jennings|website=CNN|date=13 May 2020 |language=en|access-date=2020-05-13}}{{Cite web|last=Solá-Santiago|first=Frances|title=5 Brands Fashion Insiders Are Excited For In 2022|url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2022/01/10822263/top-fashion-brands-to-know-2022|access-date=2022-01-05|website=www.refinery29.com|language=en}}{{Cite news|last=Zarrella|first=Katharine K.|date=2022-01-21|title=How to Wear Cutout Clothes in the Dead of Winter|language=en-US|work=Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-wear-cutout-clothes-in-winter-11642794939|access-date=2022-01-22|issn=0099-9660}}{{Cite magazine |last=Sanchez |first=Rosa |date=2022-04-15 |title=The Next Great Dark Fashion Designer Is From America's Heartland |url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/designers/a39705053/elena-velez-year-1-womenswear-designer-milwaukee-rosalia/ |access-date=2022-04-15 |magazine=Harper's BAZAAR |language=en-US}} and other publications.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/nyfw-designers-on-their-fall-winter-2019-inspirations.html|title=156 Designers on Their Fall/Winter Inspirations|last=Colyar|first=Brock|date=2019-02-07|website=The Cut|language=en-us|access-date=2020-03-07}}{{Cite web|last=Horyn|first=Cathy|date=2021-09-09|title=New York Fashion Week Returns|url=https://www.thecut.com/2021/09/cathy-horyn-nyfw-spring-2022-review-proenza-schouler.html|access-date=2021-09-10|website=The Cut|language=en-us}}{{Cite news |last=Testa |first=Jessica |date=2023-05-25 |title=Should Making It in Fashion Be This Hard? |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/style/elena-velez-fashion.html |access-date=2023-05-26 |issn=0362-4331}}
In February, 2021, Elena Velez Industries Inc. was founded with investment support from venture capital firms Gener8tor, and CSA Partners.{{Cite web|title=Premiere Night Accelerator Studio 2020|url=https://www.gener8tor.com/premiere-night/accelerator-studio-2020|access-date=2021-02-05|website=gener8tor|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-02-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210205004417/https://www.gener8tor.com/premiere-night/accelerator-studio-2020|url-status=dead}} The company was subsequently profiled in Forbes for its work with Midwestern makers and mission to "democratize resources and recognition" for artists outside of traditional creative capitals.{{Cite web|last=Sanchez|first=Rosa|title=Elena Velez Rattles The Luxury Market With Gritty, Romantic Milwaukee Craftsmanship|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/rosasanchez/2021/03/24/elena-velez-rattles-the-luxury-market-with-gritty-romantic-milwaukee-craftsmanship/|access-date=2021-03-25|website=Forbes|language=en}}
Velez has dressed celebrities including Taylor Swift,{{Cite magazine |date=2024-04-23 |title=Elena Velez's Witchy Creation for Taylor Swift's "Fortnight" Is Tortured Poetry at Its Core |url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/designers/a60571533/designer-elena-velez-outfit-taylor-swift-ttpd-fortnight-interview/ |access-date=2024-06-25 |magazine=Harper's BAZAAR |language=en-US}} Tate McRae,{{Cite web |title=Instagram |url=https://www.instagram.com/elenavelez/p/DDH2WjPOaiC/ |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=www.instagram.com}} Solange Knowles, FKA Twigs, Ethel Cain,{{Cite web |title=V141: The Reign of Ethel Cain |url=https://vmagazine.com/article/v141-the-reign-of-ethel-cain/ |access-date=2023-03-07 |website=V Magazine|date=March 2023 }} Julia Fox, Charli XCX, Eartheater, Doja Cat, Grimes, Anna Delvey,{{Cite web |title=Anna Delvey's Accessories Turned Heads as She Walked Runway at New York Fashion Week. Here's Why |url=https://people.com/anna-delvey-ankle-monitor-runway-new-york-fashion-week-8788761 |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=People.com |language=en}} Teyana Taylor, Tinashe{{Cite web |date=2024-09-13 |title=The New York Fashion Week digicam diaries: It's 2006 again, baby |url=https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/image/story/2024-09-13/nyfw-2024-diaries |access-date=2024-09-30 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} and others.{{Cite web |date=2022-09-11 |title=Julia Fox and Her Baby Wore Custom Elena Velez Looks to NYFW |url=https://www.papermag.com/julia-fox-elena-velez-2658188260.html?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2?rebelltitem=2 |access-date=2022-09-15 |website=PAPER |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Elena Velez Explores "Romanticized Abstractions of Middle America" for FW23 |url=https://vmagazine.com/article/elena-velez-explores-romanticized-abstractions-of-middle-america-for-fw23/ |access-date=2023-03-07 |website=V Magazine|date=16 February 2023 }}{{Cite web |title=In conversation with Arca |url=https://www.glamcult.com/articles/in-conversation-with-arca/ |access-date=2020-04-07 |website=GLAMCULT.COM |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Hahn |first=Rachel |date=7 August 2019 |title=Caroline Polachek Is Bringing Back Pirate Style for Her Latest Video |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/caroline-polachek-new-song-video-ocean-of-tears-pang-pirate-style |access-date=2020-03-07 |website=Vogue |language=en}}
In 2022, Velez won American Emerging Designer of the Year at the CFDA Fashion Awards.{{Cite web |last=Lockwood |first=Lisa |date=2022-09-15 |title=2022 CFDA Fashion Awards Reveals Nominees and Honorees |url=https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-features/2022-cfda-fashion-awards-nominees-honorees-1235330888/ |access-date=2022-09-15 |website=WWD |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2022-11-08 |title=Khaite's Catherine Holstein, Luar's Raul Lopez, and More Win Top Awards at CFDA Awards—See All the Winners Here |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/2022-cfda-award-winners |access-date=2022-11-11 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}} In March 2023, she was inducted as a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.{{Cite web |title=CFDA |url=https://cfda.com/news/the-2023-new-cfda-members |access-date=2023-04-06 |website=cfda.com}}
Velez attended the 2023 Met Gala as a guest of Balenciaga. For the occasion, she created a crackle medium screen print ink-gown for the artist Sasha Gordon as a nod to Gordon's painting career.{{cite web |last1=WHEELER |first1=ANDRÉ-NAQUIAN |title=Meet the Four Independent Designers Balenciaga Invited to the Met Gala |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/meet-the-four-independent-designers-balenciaga-invited-to-the-met-gala |website=Vogue |date=2 May 2023 |access-date=30 May 2023}}
Velez is an outspoken advocate for transparency around the struggles of being a young designer, detailing in a profile for the New York Times her difficulties around growing a brand without private wealth.
Awards and showcases
- Recipient, Joe & Clara Tsai Foundation; 2025 Revitalize Brooklyn Grant, New York, 2025{{Cite web |title=Revitalize Brooklyn |url=https://www.bksjf.org/revitalize-brooklyn |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=Social Justice Fund |language=en-US}}
- Semi Finalist, LVMH Prize, Paris, 2024
- Recognizee, The Dazed 100 List curated by Ib Kamara, 2023
- Nominee, Emerging Designer/ Brand of the Year; Latin American Fashion Awards, 2023{{Cite web |title=Categories |url=https://latinamericanfashionawards.com/categories/ |access-date=2023-08-16 |website=Latin America Fashion Awards |language=en-US}}
- Recognizee, 50 Women In Power list by WWD, New York, 2023{{Cite web |author=W. W. D. Staff |date=2023-08-08 |title=Scarlett Johansson to Headline WWD x FN x Beauty Inc Women in Power 2023 Event |url=https://wwd.com/business-news/business-features/scarlett-johansson-wwd-women-in-power-2023-event-1235761372/ |access-date=2023-08-09 |website=WWD |language=en-US}}
- Recipient, Elle Magazine's 2023 Women of Impact Award, WA D.C., 2023{{Cite web |date=2023-03-28 |title=Elena Velez Is Bringing the Rust Belt to the Front Row |url=https://www.elle.com/culture/a43180446/elena-velez-designer-interview-2023/ |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=ELLE |language=en-US}}
- Winner, Fashion Trust US Sustainability Award, New York 2023{{Cite web |title=The Fashion Trust US Announces First Finalists for Awards |url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/news/entrepreneurship/the-fashion-trust-us-announces-first-finalists-for-awards/ |access-date=2023-02-16 |website=The Business of Fashion |date=9 February 2023 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Puppets and Puppets, Elena Velez Win Fashion Trust US Awards |url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/news/luxury/puppets-and-puppets-elena-velez-win-fashion-trust-us-awards/ |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=The Business of Fashion |date=22 March 2023 |language=en}}
- Winner, Best Emerging Designer; CFDA Fashion Awards, New York, 2022{{Cite web |last=Solá-Santiago |first=Frances |title=Meet The CFDA Awards' American Emerging Designer Of The Year |url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2022/11/11179892/elena-velez-designer-interview |access-date=2022-11-11 |website=www.refinery29.com |language=en}}
- Winner, CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund Award, New York, 2022{{Cite web |date=2022-04-26 |title=10 Distinctive Designers Make Up This Year's CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Finalists |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/cfda-vogue-fashion-fund-2021-designers |access-date=2022-05-02 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}}
- Recipient, IMG Fashion Alliance Grant, New York, 2022{{Cite web |last=Lockwood |first=Lisa |date=2022-06-15 |title=IMG, Empire State Development Reveal 10 Recipients of $500,000 NYFW Small Business Grant |url=https://wwd.com/fashion-news/designer-luxury/img-10-nyfw-small-business-grant-designers-1235204408/ |access-date=2022-06-26 |website=WWD |language=en-US}}
- Winner,Teen Vogue Generation Next, New York, 2019{{Cite web |date=2019-08-22 |title=Meet Teen Vogue's Generation Next — 6 Designers That Represent the Future of Fashion |url=https://www.teenvogue.com/story/teen-vogue-generation-next-nyfw |access-date=2022-05-02 |website=Teen Vogue |language=en-US}}
- Winner,VFILES Season 10 Runway, New York, 2018{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/vfiles/status/1039951205638832131|title=The VFILES Show designer Elena Velez is making metal corsets and garments from military parachutes. |last=|date=2018-09-12|website=@vfiles|language=en|access-date=2020-03-08}}
- Finalist, Swedish Fashion Council CTF Award, London 2018{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepinkprince.com/single-post/2018/09/09/The-CTF-Award|title=The CTF Award|website=thepinkprince|date=9 September 2018 |language=en|access-date=2020-03-08}}
Museum acquisitions
- Barbican Centre: Dirty Looks, London 2025
- V&A Museum: Taylor Swift | Songbook Trail, London 2024
- Pratt Manhattan Gallery: The New Village: Ten Years of New York Fashion, New York 2024{{Cite web |title=The New Village: Ten Years of New York Fashion |url=https://www.pratt.edu/events/the-new-village-ten-years-of-new-york-fashion/ |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=Pratt Institute |language=en-us}}
- Abrons Art Center: Objects of Permanence, New York 2023{{Cite web |title=Objects of Permanence {{!}} Abrons Arts Center |url=https://www.abronsartscenter.org/programs/objects-of-permanence |access-date=2023-09-06 |website=Objects of Permanence {{!}} Abrons Arts Center |language=en}}
- The Museum at FIT: ¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today, New York 2023{{Cite web |date=2023-05-31 |title=At The Museum at FIT, a New Exhibition Proposes a Nuanced Way to Look at Latin American Fashion |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/moda-hoy-latinx-fashion-exhibition-museum-fit |access-date=2023-06-01 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}}
Collections
- YR006 - Leech, Feb 9. 2025{{Cite web |last=Borrelli-Persson |first=Laird |date=2025-02-10 |title=Elena Velez Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection |url=https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2025-ready-to-wear/elena-velez |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}}
- YR005 - La Pucelle, Sep 10. 2024{{Cite web |last=Borrelli-Persson |first=Laird |date=2024-09-10 |title=Elena Velez Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection |url=https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/spring-2025-ready-to-wear/elena-velez |access-date=2024-09-30 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}}
- YR004 - The Longhouse, Sep. 2023{{Cite web |date=2023-09-13 |title=Elena Velez Spring 2024 Ready-to-Wear Collection |url=https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/spring-2024-ready-to-wear/elena-velez |access-date=2023-09-20 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}}
- YR003 - How's My Driving?, Feb. 2023{{Cite web |date=2023-02-14 |title=Elena Velez Fall 2023 Ready-to-Wear Collection |url=https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2023-ready-to-wear/elena-velez |access-date=2023-02-16 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}}
- YR002 - In Glass, Sep. 2022{{Cite web |date=2022-09-10 |title=Elena Velez Spring 2023 Ready-to-Wear Collection |url=https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/spring-2023-ready-to-wear/elena-velez |access-date=2022-09-15 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}}
- YR001 - Maidenhood And Its Labors, Feb. 2022{{Cite web|date=2022-02-12|title=Elena Velez Fall 2022 Ready-to-Wear Collection|url=https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2022-ready-to-wear/elena-velez|access-date=2022-02-25|website=Vogue|language=en-US}}
- YR000 - Rinascita, Sep. 2021{{Cite web|last=Dazed|date=2021-09-07|title=The rising New York designers who should be on your radar|url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/54027/1/new-york-fashion-week-nyfw-ss22-womenswear-elena-velez-private-policy|access-date=2021-09-10|website=Dazed|language=en}}
- Homecoming, 2019{{Cite web|url=https://www.elenavelez.com/homecoming|title=homecoming|website=elenavelez|language=en|access-date=2020-03-07|archive-date=2019-12-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214141043/https://www.elenavelez.com/homecoming|url-status=dead}}
- Vessel, 2019
- _And Carry On, 2018
Salons
References
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External links
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