Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi watched a lot of TV during the lockdowns, but that isn’t a preamble for a collection about couch clothes. Though the married designers do produce a popular homeware range of eiderdowns, pillows, and (new this season) face masks, they’ve never been interested in sweatpants and other forms of lounge gear. Their new spring collection is made with reemergence in mind, but its bright colors are in fact lifted from the rainbow-stripe test card screens that appeared when TV stations used to sign off for the night. A factoid for the millennials and Gen-Zs reading this: back in the dark ages of the 1980s, TV wasn’t a 24/7 operation.
Thornton and Bregazzi are old enough to remember the ’80s, but they’re tuned into what the youngs of the early 2020s want. On the shortlist: clothes that look vintage, even if they aren’t; an outfit that registers as offhand, not head-to-toe; and anything body-conscious. If it’s boldly colored or mixes prints, all the better. Their new lineup has all that and more. The lookbook opens with a quilted jacket, paperbag waist pants, and a mock-neck top in a blow-up static print, and closes with a candy pink moiré silk dress layered with a ruffled bra. In between, there are colorful, upcycled patchwork knits (no two of which will be the same), ruffled dresses cut asymmetrically for ease, and a sporty harness and ripcord waist pants.
The exuberance of the clothes is aligned with the peak-TV moment we’re living in, though some of the shapes do have echoes of those long lost ’80s days. What distinguishes their ruffled dresses and oversize sweaters from actual vintage is the versatile details with which they’re made, like removable yokes and ruffled collars. The cute reversible totes with the circular cut-outs to slip an arm through are another 2020s kind of proposition; they’re made from deadstock materials.
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