Why be boring?” asks Humberto Leon, who, with Carol Lim, started the street-to-chic fashion emporium Opening Ceremony 17 years ago, now with four stores (two in New York, one in Los Angeles, and one in Tokyo) and a cache of more than a million Instagram followers. In 2011 they added the Parisian house of Kenzo to their design repertoire. The question posed by Leon pretty much sums up their mission statement.
Leon and Lim have never been boring, nor have they fallen victim to the sort of jadedness that comes from entering middle age, becoming parents (each has two children), living in New York City, facing fashion critics, executing business plans, and, well, generally being responsible.
“That’s rare in this business, where everybody is trying to be too cool for…
