It’s the season of the emerging designer, as many of New York Fashion Week’s former tent pole labels have decided not to stage a runway show for fall 2022. Fine by me. It frees up the spotlight for the younger, weirder, or less conventional. Incidentally, even established brands are embracing that spirit.
This season Rosetta Getty collaborated with Women’s History Museum. Designers and multimedia artists Amanda McGowan and Mattie Rivkah Barringer hosted their first-ever clothing sale in 2018, though they were known as an underground, if-you-know-you-know label for years before (and still are). Getty attended that first sale and, voila! We have a collab.
But how to merge Women’s History Museum’s avant-garde outlook with Getty’s refined simplicity? Through their shared love of patchwork. “We always do these sort of patchwork things, using things that don’t necessarily go together. They do that too,” said Getty. “They’ll take a plastic bag or an old sweater, and they’ll sew it together, because they experiment with film and fashion. Now they’re showing in the biggest art institutions in the world.” The mesh jersey dresses, tights, tops, and gloves they made together feature a gray patchwork print, and tap into the current appetite for clingy, sexy fabrics.
That’s just a few pieces of the collection, though the partnership had a big impact on Getty’s design ethos for the season. Thinking about women’s role in history, she designed several corsets that have structured boning in the front and just one bow tie in the back in lieu of laces. Loyal Rosetta Getty customers will likely layer those tops over a button down or a dress, as shown in looks 16 and 21. The latter is a dark floral corset over a lighter floral sequined evening dress. In a collection otherwise marked by its variations on wardrobe foundations (wide leg trousers, blazers, overcoats) it stands out as a risk that paid off.
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