Co’s Stephanie Danan began our appointment talking about how the spring collection was about “fluidity” and the “unexpected way of mixing our sportswear with our eveningwear.” She continued, “As the collection came together with the styling and the location there was a sense of escape a little bit. Living in a bubble and just kind of not listening to the noise right now of what we want to wear, what we should wear, what’s going on in fashion, what’s going on in the world.”
She certainly cut out the noise, delivering a pared-back collection of a handful essential pieces. A light maxi knit “T-shirt” dress that she and Samuel Drira, her stylist and collaborator, layered over a linen suit, and over fringed separates, scrunched up around the shoulders as a kind of looped shawl. There were light, garment-dyed poplin separates—a trench coat, a button down shirt, narrow trousers; a truly terrific leather “poet blouse” jacket; and a handful of low-key, airy gowns including one in devoré velvet worn backwards and layered with “a bunch of skirts underneath just to elevate the whole thing.” There were no pops of color, just a sea of whites, black, and washed out military greens, everything worn with everything else. The point was not necessarily high/low dressing or the theory of opposites, but more simply a matter of why not just wear everything you love. “During our fittings with Samuel and the design team we just thought, ‘let’s get radical here,’” Danan added, after a string of “no, no, no’s” of all the things they’d rejected. “We’re just like, ‘this is who we are. This is our identity. This is what we think that you will love from us.’”