A query we’re all usually asking ourselves: What would Megan Draper put on in 2025? With Simon Miller’s fall 2025 assortment, Chelsea Hansford might have a solution.
This season, fairly than take inspiration from varied far-flung locations, Hansford primarily based her total providing across the dialog pit—the bygone midcentury design fixture that was simply as cool because it was harmful. (It’s a miracle Don Draper by no means took a spill in his after one too many Previous Fashioneds.) “I used to be actually drawn by the thought of this intimate human connection whether or not that’s lounging and studying a guide, or listening to information, or dancing with your mates or sharing martinis,” Hansford stated.
Hansford infused a Nineteen Seventies sensibility into fall 2025, from the striped, earth-toned knitwear to the picket clogs. In any other case, Simon Miller hero items had been nonetheless in heavy rotation: the model’s signature tie-back Loch High returned in a rusty satin and a brown and black striped colorway, as did the fringed Za Za skirt in a deep burgundy.
However, whereas the staples had been there, it felt like Hansford was taking dangers, introducing new fabrications and silhouettes, like occasionwear usual in brocade and teardrop sequins. The colorblocked knitwear was a specific spotlight. Hansford’s broader method stems from Simon Miller’s development (the first-ever brick-and-mortar retailer lately opened in downtown Los Angeles), in addition to her clients’ pure evolution.
“When the enterprise grows, I feel we will begin to justify larger swings. Now we’ve got extra flexibility to develop, and likewise extra confidence in testing new issues,” she stated. “And I feel our buyer is maturing with us. We’ve been doing this for a bit, so it’s good to see her rising up.”
