PRECIOUS & HUMBLE ⛳️ #DACBE: #RichardMalone‘s #SS22 garments, made in part using fragments of materials, including scrap leather provided by #Mulberry, were presented among Raphael cartoons at the Victoria & Albert Museum in #London. The setting of his show, the designer noted, “really heightened the fact that a lot of fashion is imitation, or it isn’t real life.” But that’s a dichotomy that also plays out in his own work: “There’s one side of what I do that’s quite theatrical and abstract, but then there’s also the real women that buy clothes from me, and men, and they’re such two different conversations,” he observed. “There is more than one truth in everything”. More on the JOURNAL 🎽 #LFW #Christo #Emballage #ContemporaryArt #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🪁 #collage by me.
CLUB, DANCE, PARTY, CLUB ✨ #DACBE: #TomFord really delivered this season! The collection was phenomenal – I would even say it’s one of the best outings of this #NYFW. For #SS22, Ford is ready for the good times to start rolling again. More on the JOURNAL 🌹 #NewYork #PartyTime #NightOut #Clubbing #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🪐 #collage by me, music: “Bad Girls” by Donna Summer.
NEW AGE 🍄 #DACBE: This wasn’t a regular #Rodarte collection. Kate and Laura Mulleavy left behind romantic ruffles and horror vacui ornaments, and resorted towards something lighter, even out-of-this-world ethereal. Over the past 18 months, the Rodarte sisters have made a promise to meet their woman where she is. Their #SS22 collection was a proper declaration of re-emergence, of spiritual glitz, and of reconnecting to nature. More on the JOURNAL 🪐 #NYFW #NewYork #KateMulleavy #LauraMulleavy #OutOfThisWorld #NewAge #DACBECOLLECTIONS ✨ #collage by me, music: “Follow Me” by Amanda Lear.
ONCE UPON A TIME 🌜 #DACBE: No one in #NewYork does opera-level drama like #ThomBrowne. At his #SS22 presentation, which was an artistic performance and a fashion spectacle at the same time, the audience could be carried off in awe in so many directions: pegasuses rode penny-farthings, a couple of bachelors haunted a raw wood house, models turned from shrubs into statues… just wow. More on the JOURNAL 🌻 #NYFW #Drama #GenderFluid #AmericanFashion #MetInAmerica #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🌝 #collage by me, music: “Suite bergamasque” by Claude Debussy and Alain Planès.
EXUBERANT 🌷 #DACBE: This was an exuberant, joyful and extremely uplifting #Batsheva collection. #BatshevaHay’s #SS22 runway show pushed her prairie, girly aesthetic to electric new heights, at some points even camp-y territories. Busy Philipps, Ego Nwodim, #AmyFineCollins, Heidi Gardner, and more #NewYork legends – and Batsheva clients – took turns in cascading frills and sweet dresses. This was one of these #NYFW moments that we all missed during the pandemic seasons. More on the JOURNAL 🌸 #Exuberance #DressingUp #BeBold #SwanLake #ArtNouveau #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🦩 #collage by me.
SANCTUARY 🌞 #DACBE: #ProenzaSchouler radiates with a laid-back, easy-going, summer-ish energy this season. There’s a reason why. #LazaroHernandez and #JackMcCollough made Kauai their “home-office” during a period of pandemic time – it’s their favourite destination that they call their “sanctuary.” The island vibe influenced their new collection, which mixed scuba and surfing motifs, a color palette plucked from nature, and a few handmade leis from Maui with their more urban fare. Backstage after their show, they clarified that Hawaii wasn’t a literal reference, but rather a starting point for the collection’s ambience. Most of all, “they’re joyful clothes to step out in the world again.” More on the JOURNAL ✨ #NewYork #NYFW #SS22 #TheJoyOfDressing #PaulGauguin #SolarPower #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🌈 #collage by me, music: “Grow” by Deradoorian.
