M A R K E T S T U DY ST Y L E N OT ES
DESIGNER D E TA I L S
lection incorporates a beautiful array of colors and feminine silhouettes. Where did you draw your inspiration for the collection? I was inspired by the process of restoring and decorating my Victorian flat in East London. I took down a couple of walls on my own, a seriously empowering thing to do! And I discovered that building construction is not all that different from construction in clothing. There is the foundation, and then the structure, the lining, the layers and the seams. Then there is the way that you join the seams, the mitred joints, the measurements, the careful use of colour, the composition of a space, and the attention to detail in the finishing. I collaborated with the British heritage paint company Little Greene to choose my palette for the season and build the house sets to display them in. The film for this season (directed by Lily Silverton) juxtaposes images from my house with the clothes. Can you give us any hints for what is to come for the fall 2015 collection? I've been working on an anthropological study of the Edeline Lee woman! At Rose & Ivy Journal we are passionate about beauty and seek it in all of its forms. How do you define beauty? Beauty is integrity. It’s something internal.
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