Look 21

SPRING/SUMMER 2021

Rosetta Getty

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Thu - Sep 17, 2020 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm EDT
Status
Finished

SS21

“SO MANY DREAMS ARE CROWDING UPON ME NOW THAT I CAN SCARCELY TELL TRUE FROM FALSE; DREAMS LIKE LIGHT IMPRISONED IN BRIGHT MINERAL CAVES; HOT, HEAVY DREAMS; ICE-AGE DREAMS; DREAMS LIKE MACHINES IN THE HEAD.” ANNA KAVAN, ICE (1967)

SPRING/SUMMER 2021: A SEASON LIKE NO OTHER. IN TRYING TO SURMISE THE WAY I FEEL ABOUT CREATING A COLLECTION DURING A PERIOD OF EXTREME UNCERTAINTY AND UNREST, I WAS REMINDED OF A PASSAGE FROM ANNA KAVAN’S CULT SLIPSTREAM NOVEL, ICE, IN WHICH THE AUTHOR CAPTURES THE FEELING OF BEING CAUGHT IN A FRACTIOUS, DREAMLIKE STATE THAT TAKES ABRUPT TWISTS AND TURNS.

IN ONE SENSE, THE COLLECTION SPEAKS TO THE REALITY OF HAVING TO STAY IN ONE PHYSICAL SPACE; SEEKING COMFORT AND FAMILIARITY THROUGH CLOTHING. IT FELT NECESSARY TO WORK MORE EFFICIENTLY THAN EVER BEFORE AND AS A RESULT, EVERY PIECE IN THE LINE OFFERS PURPOSE, EASE, AND LONGEVITY. THERE ARE CLASSIC STRIPED COTTON POPLIN SHIRTS AND WIDE-LEG DRAWSTRING PANTS, STRUCTURED LANTERN DRESSES CUT FROM SUPER-FINE SCUBA, AND TAILORED WOOL CAPE-COATS, JACKETS AND BUTTON-UP VESTS THAT MAKE FOR MODERN LAYERING THROUGHOUT THE SEASONS.

YET, I ALSO WANTED TO PROVIDE OUR WOMAN WITH OPULENT, TRANSFORMATIVE LOOKS THAT ALLOW HER TO DREAM. I BECAME FASCINATED WITH LINGERIE AND NIGHTWEAR FROM THE LATE 19TH CENTURY, WHICH IS MOST EVIDENT IN THE ELEGANT DAY-TO-NIGHT GOWNS AND PAJAMA-STYLE SEPARATES CRAFTED FROM CLOUD-WHITE SILK-SATIN AND PAIRED WITH TACTILE SLIPPERS SPUN FROM TUBULAR LEATHER AND COTTON JERSEY YARN.

ADDITIONALLY, THIS SEASON’S PRINTS WERE CULTIVATED FROM A SERIES OF SUBCONSCIOUS DOODLES THAT SURFACED DURING THE MANY HOURS I SPENT ON ZOOM CALLS BETWEEN MY HOME IN LOS ANGELES AND OUR DESIGN STUDIO IN NEW YORK. AN ABSTRACT WINDOWPANE PLAID, A SCATTERED BOX MOTIF, AND A FREE-SPIRITED TWIST ON THE TIMELESS POLKA DOT PATTERN ALL FEATURE AS A RESULT.

THE SS21 LOOKBOOK FURTHER AMPLIFIES THE DUALITY OF THE COLLECTION. LENSED VIRTUALLY BY BERLIN-BASED PHOTOGRAPHER ROB KULISEK, MODELS CAN BE SEEN WANDERING OUR NEW YORK DESIGN STUDIO AND MY ADJOINING HOME. IN SOME IMAGES THEY APPEAR STATIC AND PERFECTLY LUCID, IN OTHERS, THEY APPEAR BLURRED OR SUPERIMPOSED, URGING US TO QUESTION WHETHER THEY ARE REALLY THERE OR SOMEWHERE ELSE ENTIRELY.


– ROSETTA GETTY, FOUNDER AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR

SPRING/SUMMER 2021 Collection

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