VOGUE: Catching Up With Legendary Designer Manuel Cuevas

Written by Noah Eckstein | June 6, 2024

“You’re going to see the legacy of Manuel Cuevas in Nashville probably forever,” says Sam Williams, the grandson of Hank Williams and a country music singer who debuted at the Grand Ole Opry in 2019. “There’s a historical sense [to] wearing Manuel’s pieces,” he says, “a sense of the past and honoring it.” Cuevas designed clothes for generations of the Williams family, including Hank Williams Jr., Sam’s father. “When I think of Hank Williams style,” Sam says, “it’s double-breasted suits, not a lot of flashy stuff; Hank’s silhouette comes to mind. He was very thin and very masculine.”

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