backstage #nyfw | collina strada

Collina Strada AW18
Photography / Mark Elzey

A tremor of nostalgia whirled in the floaty chiffon seams at Collina Strada. Designer Hillary Taymour constructed a unisex world that was both reflective and strikingly personal. Using a muted pastel palette, Taymour’s balletic ode to age was best mirrored in velveteen tangerine textures and translucent wrinkled sleeves. Every crease and every leopard underpinning unravelled the complexities of growing older, revisiting one’s intrinsic need to hang on to the jauntiness of juvenescence as identified in furrowed plaid frocks juxtaposed with ultra-sophisticated plush robes.