Over the past seasons Stine Goya has been exploring interior worlds, in the sense that she has held shows on the street where she lives and in her atelier. Earlier this year she introduced a small selection of housewares. Now, in connection with her new collection, which she named The Guest House, Goya has customized four paint colors with File Under Pop. That surface-design company for interiors is run by her friend Josephine Yaa Akuamoa, whose office served as a location for the showroom and celebratory dinner for this season.
The backstory for spring probably made sense on the mood board but was overcomplicated in the telling. The team imagined a traveler arriving at an 18th-century country house by horse (which explains the equine print and patterns). Overlaid on this were references to Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde. The garments got to the point more directly. Ceramic buttons, crochet (used on half collars), an engaging print of porcelain plates, and a monogram like you might find on a linen napkin conveyed the world-of-interiors theme with various levels of subtlety. “All of the details have come from this world that you feel like you are looking into,” said Goya of the wondrous voyeurism allowed by being hosted in someone’s house. “You can recognize something, but it’s not your own.”
If a heart print was saccharine, a dress with an extended vest top and a flowy skirt was perfectly romantic. The designer claimed a groovy pair of washed jeans with a wide waistband as her own by forming the belt loops on either side of the closing in the shape of an S and a G—standing for Stine Goya but also so good.