In July, Tibi’s founder and inventive director Amy Smilovic and Traci Bui-Amar, senior vp of design, took a visit to Antwerp, Belgium. Searching for inspiration, they have been immediately taken by the town’s fluid merging of heritage and modernity throughout structure, interiors and locals’ private type.
“That’s what we actually tried to do with the clothes — lean into extra luxurious materials than ever earlier than and into trendy sculpture, however wherever we lean trendy that we’re utterly meshing it with one thing that’s simply very traditional and heritage on the similar time,” Smilovic stated the experimental twists demonstrated throughout a presentation of their SoHo house.
“This was our house that we purchased in 2008, and we simply received it again. We’re turning it into essentially the most superb front room to satisfy with our purchasers sooner or later,” Smilovic stated of the situation, the place they invited friends to get a behind-the-scenes take a look at their fall assortment marketing campaign and video in lieu of getting a runway present. (Because the pandemic, the model solely places on runway reveals for spring.)
Right here, the gathering was hanging in a customized Antwerp apartment-style vignette, and towards a backdrop that includes funky door tits. Fashions have been clad in such modern-meets-heritage garb as an extremely light-weight skirt swimsuit crafted in a papery cloth that seemed like conventional wool, or a standout neoprene cinched and tailor-made jacket with leather-based collar paired with leggy denims that might be zipped off into Bermuda shorts.
Every season, Smilovic is all about evolving her solutions-based philosophy. Fall continued that concept from the highest down with a couple of nods to classic moto type seen throughout their travels, and loads of ease. For example, elongated bomber jackets belted on the hem; utility-meets-jodhpur denims that includes round godets on the legs paired with a plaid shirt; boots with hidden inner wedges and wider leg shafts, as to emulate the form of a gown underneath a pant; attire that might be snapped up, or down and right into a practice; outerwear with inner backpack straps, and belts designed with bike loops to carry the season’s leather-based mittens. They, in fact, featured flaps that allow the wearer to nonetheless use their cellphone — pragmatic head to toe.
