ARIA 🫀 #DACBE: #Gucci turns 100 this year, and #AlessandroMichele celebrates that milestone in a very bold and sexy way. In his latest collection, Michele picked up on Gucci’s equestrian codes, giving them a fetishistic spin; he reprised one of #TomFord’s greatest hits, the red velvet tuxedo from autumn-winter 1996; and he “hacked” #DemnaGavasalia’s #Balenciaga. And that’s certainly not it. More on the JOURNAL 👅 #Milan #GucciAria #GucciGang #AllTheFeels #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🫁 “live” #collage by me, music: “Forbidden Love” by Madonna.
SOCIALI/S/TE 🦢 #DACBE: Finally, a delightful dash of refinement appears on the Polish fashion scene. Meet #JanFChodorowicz, the womenswear designer and recent graduate of #CentralSaintMartins MA course, and his brilliant SOCIALI/S/TE collection. Chodorowicz’s debut line-up introduces the audience to his two favourite meeting-points: the codes of haute couture and workwear. For the collection, Jan was simultaneously inspired by the glamorous Truman-Capote-kind-of-women, and photographs of working women in socialist Poland – visions of strikingly contrasting femininity that collided at one point in history, when #JackieKennedy and #LeeRadziwill came to #Warsaw in 1970. More on the JOURNAL 🔨 #EmergingDesigner #AW21 #WorkingWomen #SwanLake #WorkwearStyle #LadyLike #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🎹 #collage by me.
SILHOUETTES 🌹 #DACBE: #RafSimons‘ latest collections are more straightforward and easier in approach – yet they have that elusive spark that makes the designer’s work so attractive. For #AW21, Simons stated his simple mission: “The collection is about things I love – things I have always loved, that are always there in every collection, in the processes behind it, and the clothes.” More on the JOURNAL 🪶 #Paris #Antwerp #Silhouette #Menswear #Oversized #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🍄 “live” #collage by me, music: “Kill V. Maim” by Grimes.
SOOTHING GROOVINESS 🦩 #DACBE: If #TheElderStatesman was a music album, to me, it would be Lana Del Rey’s latest “Chemtrails Over The Country Club”. It’s laid-back, it’s care-free, it’s soothing. #GregChait‘s #California-based company makes the trippiest luxurious knitwear out there, and with every season, he manages to expand his world in a natural, considered way. More about the label’s #PreFall2021 & #AW21 on the JOURNAL 🦜 #Cashmere #LosAngeles #Groovy #TieDye #GeorgiaOKeefe #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🌞 #collage by me.
WHITE DRESS 🤍 #DACBE: The topic of bridal-wear might be a dull one for some (like me!), but the moment I’ve discovered #DanielleFrankel, I instantly changed my mind. #DanielleHirsch, the designer, made her mark as a bridal designer, yet her #AW21 collection is a beautifully balanced hybrid between a line-up of wedding gowns and fabulous eveningwear. More on the JOURNAL 🦢 #NewYork #BridalDress #BridalWear #EveningWear #WhiteDress #ChemtrailsOverTheCountryClub #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🌪 “live” #collage by me, music: #LanaDelRey’s “White Dress” from #ChemtrailsOverTheCountryClub (2021).
