What is the pinnacle of girlhood, if not trying on every single item in your closet in the hopes of wearing a cute outfit, deciding you hate everything, and promptly tossing every piece of clothing you own onto your bed until it’s covered?
That’s what made it a perfect presentation format for Lucila Safdie’s first on-schedule collection, given the brand’s penchant for frills, itsy-bitsy bottoms, and cute dresses — championing oft-underappreciated joy in femininity.
This collection, made in collaboration with a team of women including art director Bella Bruton, stylist Isabel Sayer, and artist Daria Blum, built on those codes. Invitees stepped into a faux bedroom and watched as models tried on pieces, which Safdie said were inspired by her current online obsessions: the Romanov sisters.
You May Also Like
“I was inspired by the Romanov sisters and their story of girlhood. The iconography around them being killed so young led them to become icons and myths in history,” she explained in an interview.
White jackets, slim pants, breezy dresses and skirts were contrasted by neon bodysuits, cropped polos and bodycon dresses with puffed sleeves as Safdie aimed to blend yesteryear’s codes of girlhood with today’s.
With a diehard female following that includes Addison Rae, Rachel Anne Sennott and Alex Consani, it’s clear that Safdie’s covetable clothes resonate with cool, stylish women.
But it could be interesting for the designer — whose first collection was such a revelation it spawned a thousand fast-fashion dupes — to try pushing herself in terms of fabrication and fit.
She has great ideas, but the heavy usage of jersey doesn’t always do them justice.