The playful nods to high society also saw curtain fabric drawn at the waist with oversized gold belt buckles, alongside form-fitting dresses patterned in disintegrating tartan, paired with an also-exquisitely-beaded bundle of asparagus (actually based on an old porcelain rendition, the vegetable as seen through the eyes of antique ceramics, through the eyes of modern-day luxury fashion). Dresses also came down the runway in muted greys and browns, a palette more suited to a Succession boardroom, but, with outsized, triangular silhouettes, stealth wealth this was not. After all, as Anderson says: “The idea of an aristocrat is a foreign thing now – it’s nearly non-existent.” Luckily, that doesn’t mean that we can’t still have nice things.
Photography Cris Fragkou
