Good news from the captivating fashion Wworld: the Chloé Pre-Fall 2023 collection just arrived!
The merino wool tank and maxi skirt that Chloé creative director Gabriela Hearst’s 17th-century inspiration, painter Artemisia Gentileschi, are embellished with gold body chains to open the 2023 Chloé pre-fall lookbook.
Hearst praised Gentileschi on a Zoom conversation last week about the new collection; the designer was drawn to the painter’s talent and her unlikely accomplishment (painting wasn’t a normal female job 500 years ago). Additionally, “she painted heroines“.
But Hearst’s true motivation isn’t historicism. After joining the Parisian fashion house two years ago, she rapidly developed her Chloé aesthetic.
Allusions to the Baroque period run throughout the new collection. A knit dress has graceful trumpet sleeves, a hemp and linen number has a demure lace-up bodice, and quilted puffers shaped like doublets are made from leather or recycled nylon.
She is motivated by her efforts to increase the sustainability of the fashion industry, and if she can do so while empowering female makers, all the better.
Among the company’s social enterprise partnerships include a recent one with Developed For a Woman in Madagascar, whose craftsmen made handwoven headgear for the collection, and a two-season-old agreement with Amumbai in Paraguay, whose workers created several of the handcrafted shoe types featured.
Here are some of the looks from the Chloé Pre-Fall 2023 collection.
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