In her pleasant pre-fall assortment Ditte Reffstrup additional develops themes she launched for spring (resembling wrapping and print mixing) and combines them with updates of name signatures (heart-shaped as an alternative of spherical studs, T-shirt prints labored into fuzzy pullovers). The garments conjure the softness of late summer season and a change-of-seasons temper that’s without delay nostalgic and anticipatory. An extended, lace-trimmed costume with lingerie particulars and a flowing handkerchief hem take cues from the previous, whereas a plaid bomber with scattered embroidered blooms has a sportier, tomboy vibe, and hints in direction of cooler temps.
Flowers are a carryover theme from final season explored by means of totally different textiles and colours. There’s a poppy pink in a fil coupé materials, which additionally reveals up in a leaf brown hue on a pantsuit. Subtler is a white-on-white (or ought to we are saying “cloud dancer”?) jacquard that is sort of a woven equal of a warp print. A watercolor floral print on georgette is equally suggestive. The lightness is even carried by means of to a zebra print, which received an ethereal redo. And should you assume that you could’t combine that animalier motif with argyle, Ganni will persuade you in any other case.
Reffstrup, who all the time pulls from her private experiences, embedded parts of her Danish summers into the providing by way of strawberries (which she likes finest served with cream and sugar), shells (see the embroidery on a mesh overlay on a mini LBD), and lace. Having realized from a summer season good friend that totally different Danish areas produced totally different kinds of lace, the designer created a brand trim representing the imaginary land of everlasting summer season.
