Vaquera began in 2016 as fashion fan fiction, a way for designers Patric DiCaprio and Bryn Taubensee to explore their obsession with clothing. Vaquera means cowgirl in Spanish, from a nickname Patric was given while working in the kitchen of a restaurant. The name now represents a New York brand making garments for the characters of their city, both actual and imagined, and their very real customers across the world. What began as a way to explore tropes of dressing has become a look in itself.