The collection is inspired by my grandmothers : my Irish granny Margaret Gleeson and
my Chinese grandmother Cecelia Rocha, my relationship with them and my relationship
with clothes.
It is a story of respect, a respect that is rendered in the fabrication, the consideration
and understanding of cut and refined detail.
Although she has a naivety, this season’s girl is brave with an evident strength, though
a little strange. She has grown up, somewhat, has become more lady like, but she is
still tenacious and resolute and a touch off kilter.
The palette plays through Pepto Bismol and powder pinks, nude and hatchling yellow,
glitter creams, and patent and tinsel black tweeds.
Through the collection, the silhouette evolves in refined structures of wafer mesh suits
and dresses and patent leather coats and beautifully displaced volume in wool and
sparkle tweed dresses, and the soft textures of leopard faux fur, tinsel and hand
crochets.
Veiled headdresses and awkward crochet trim spectacles imply a misplaced fragility,
subverted in the faux furs and crinoline embroideries that at once amour and cosset.
The season’s shoes are elevated slippers cast I velvet, patent, leopard or glitter.
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