“The city drives me, but it doesn’t feed me,” Trish Wescoat Pound said ahead of her fall runway show. “This need for wide-open spaces, especially now, for some reason this need to get out and breathe.”
It’s a sentiment the TWP creative director expressed last season, homing in on garden inspirations, and on which she expanded for fall with a more cold weather-leaning, Western-tinged wardrobe designed to carry her woman anywhere.
“In the city, the way she’s wearing these clothes, maybe it’s a little more streamlined or a little bit more buttoned up, and then in the country, they just become more relaxed,” Wescoat Pound said.
The TWP woman might don one of fall’s strong shaggy shearling coats and elongated vest atop her signature button-ups, here with cinchable back ties, and herringbone trousers or blazer-alternative cotton belted shirts. But she could easily throw them on over fall’s striped velvet trousers, Western shirt and custom buckled leather belt to embrace country living or even a cozy winter trip to Aspen, where the brand opened a store this summer.
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New fringed and woven leather handbags, easy evening gowns and an uptick of tailored and artisanal skirts — a category Wescoat Pound noted had been “going up” for the brand — swished down the runway along a fresh, grassy floral installation, which added to the mood, along with her earthy and warm palette.
Though designed for the every day, each of Wescoat Pound’s looks had a rich, layered-up approach with utility and practicality in mind, further seen through a striking chocolate brown pony hair and leather trench and sportif water repellant outerwear, double-layered blazers and shirts, oversize vests and plenty of cozy knit jumpers and lofty scarves.
“Again, it’s about the reinforcement of how important I think it is to have versatility in your closet to do a lot of things. I love that whole utility aspect, I think probably from the American Western thing that I tend to really kind of like, not just for the utility of it, but everything is supposed to function and have a reason,” she said, taking the idea as far as cheeky new leather flask-holding necklaces, for nights on the town or sipping by the fire.