FREE SPIRIT 🐎 #DACBE: When you think of #Etro, you’ve got an instant image in your head: a boheme free-spirit, wearing layers of paisley-printed chiffon and embroidered suede. She’s a global citizen, but as well quintessentially Italian. Looking at the #PreFall2022 collection, which oozes with that distinct Etro DNA, the brand’s new investor (LVMH-backed private equity giant L Catterton) is certainly into embracing what the brand stands for. More on the JOURNAL 🪶 #VeronicaEtro #FreeSpirit #WildHorses #Milan #BohemianStyle #CareFree #LuluTenney #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🐴 #collage by me.
PARADISE 🌹 #DACBE: #HouseOfAama’s mother-daughter duo #RebeccaHenry and #AkuaShabaka describe their vision as “folkways, Black experience, timeless garments.” Their collections merge spirituality, craft, and pragmatism with signatures ranging from corduroy suits to soft pussy-bow blouses and Victorian dresses. But Henry and Shabaka aren’t just in it for the clothes; they’re as passionate about storytelling and sharing knowledge, particularly about the lesser-known histories of Black people in America. For #SS22, the designers recalled the beach towns that African Americans established in the early 1900s. Built along Midwest lakes and California coasts, the resorts were a joyful respite at a time when most beaches were not yet desegregated. More on the JOURNAL 🌴 #NewYork #Resort #SummerEscape #BlackHistory #RosesAreRed #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🌺 #collage by me.
AIR FLOWER 🌬 #DACBE: I planned to write about #SusanFang‘s enchanting #SS22 collection last week, but then my Mac’s hard drive went dead… luckily, it all ended well. Fang is a highly emotional designer in tune with the tenor of our times. Shown on a lightly misting runway in #Shanghai back in October, the collection took texture to extreme and radical new places: she’s created a new material technique of folding tulle she calls “air flower” inspired by broken flowers and sliced fruits that repeats across the body in open-weave, netlike dresses, tightly latticed minis, and explosive, ombré poufs. The pieces are instantly appealing in both a visual way and in a sensory one, thoughtful to the bodies inside them and the observers taking them in. More on the JOURNAL 🌸 #Tulle #TheDress #FlowerPower #Hydrangea #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🌷 #collage by me.
SAUNDERS STUDIO 🦎 #DACBE: After closing his London-based fashion brand a couple of years ago, #JonathanSaunders, the acclaimed Scottish designer, had the time to rethink how the industry works and whether he still wants to play along its rules. Now based in Brooklyn, Saunders focuses on his other big passion – design. #SaundersStudio was founded in 2019 with the objective of creating a brand that blurred lines between genres of design, with an emphasis on color, innovative materials and a graphic sensibility. Of course, there is also the incredible, fluffy-like-marshmallow knitwear – something I always adored the most in his eponymous fashion label days. All @saundersstudio sweaters are knitted in #NewYork from chunky merino yarns, occasionally set with contrasting tasselled patch pockets. More on the JOURNAL 🐢 #Saunders #Design #BeautifulObjects #Fringes #WishList #MakeItNice 🪲 #collage by me.
OH, SO HOT ❤️🔥 #DACBE: It’s getting sultry hot in here! #CaseyCadwallader, the young American designer, has reignited the #Mugler flame since his arrival at the label in 2018 by adapting the brand’s curvy, body-con aesthetic for the athleisure generation. Discover his fabulous #AW21 collection on the JOURNAL 🔥 #Paris #BellaHadid #AmberValletta #JillKortleve #ThierryMugler #BodyCon #WildSide #DACBECOLLECTIONS ☄️ #collage by me, music: “Wild Side” by Normani (feat. Cardi B).
DETROIT 👄 #DACBE: Given his choice of venue - #Detroit’s Michigan-Theatre-turned-into-parking-garage - #DanielLee said he asked himself, “What’s American?” It was definitely the sportiest #BottegaVeneta collection he’s shown so far, with tennis whites, dark-rinse jean jackets and skirts, and tracksuits engineered in a crosshatch check knit meant to imitate the house signature intrecciato motif. The utilitarian aesthetic, however, had a sexy twist. More about the SS22 collection - or rather #Salon03 - on the JOURNAL 💄 #NewBottega #LourdesLeon #KissKiss #Americana #DACBECOLLECTIONS 💥 #collage by me, music: “Interlude - Trio” by Lana Del Rey.
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