Alex & Eli

Anna Zeman and Aja Singer of the tailored womenswear line Alex & Eli take things seriously—which is, in fact, how they got to be friends. “We were always very early to school,” explains Anna of their time as grad students at Parsons. “I mean, we were still total art-school kids—we looked weird, dressed weird—but we were anal. And our work was always done.” 

When it came time to start navigating their post-academic fashion careers in 2008, they became obsessed with the idea of women’s suiting, which required a precision that appealed to their exacting natures. So they put their (big surprise here) prestigious internships and side-gigs to work—and quickly landed their new project appearances on Gossip Girl and in the pages of

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