The British-American fashion designer Harris Reed kicked off London Fashion Week with his signature flare for putting on a theatrical production through his work and giving traditional design codes a gender-fluid flip. This time, he explored the themes of a debutante ball, rewriting conventional female tropes with his take.
For his Spring/Summer 2023 demi-couture collection, he played up waist-cinching corsets and voluminous crinolines in regal colors like fuchsia and marigold, teaming them with rocker-ready black thigh-high boots and grandiose headpieces from milliner Vivienne Lake, who designed the sky-scraping halo and bell-shaped creations this season.
He gave a nod to the return of his Missoma collaboration by dressing a model in one-of-a-kind bespoke piece of wearable art crafted by Italian artisans and featuring a crescent moon, a North Star motif, and a Georgian-inspired hand holding