{"id":174867,"date":"2025-12-08T23:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/174867\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T23:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:48:06","slug":"lafayette-148-pre-fall-2026-ready-to-wear-runway-fashion-show-collection-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/174867\/","title":{"rendered":"Lafayette 148 Pre-Fall 2026 Ready-to-Wear Runway, Fashion Show & Collection Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOver the summer, Lafayette 148\u2019s Emily Smith invited her design team to her new house in upstate New York to do research for their pre-fall<\/a> collection.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI got a house upstate as a great way to create work life balance. Honestly, I thought that decorating a house would be what my other creative outlet was, but it turned out that the garden was really driving a new passion for me,\u201d Smith said. <\/p>\n

\n\tShe continued that her practice of gardening isn\u2019t about perfection, but rather finding the joy in experimentation, which inspired Smith and her team to pull creative ideas out of the hobby and translate them into tactile garments. For instance, flowerbeds were translated into gridded prints on leisure suiting; the texture of tactile Chantilly cross-stitch knits were inspired by tall foxglove and lupin flowers, and raffia baskets were translated into embellishments on a great stretch jersey cropped jacket and minidress.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new hobby also directly inspired Smith to add brighter colors, as seen through unexpected combinations of poppy orange and hydrangea blue with light to root brown \u2014 inspired by her 12 budding flower beds, into the luxury American brand\u2019s latest lineup that leaned into the idea further with touches of masculine meets feminine chambray and denim workwear and gardening gear.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe challenge to the team was, get out there, bring your pens and papers and, we got some paintings. We actually made a little scarf that has everybody\u2019s illustrations on it. To bring it back to the brand DNA, I wanted to make sure that the prints were unapologetic, bold and graphic, so then they really have that sort of still minimalistic New York,\u201d she said of large-scale watercolor iris prints, hand-painted in the garden, as seen atop a minimalist silk linen frock and abstracted onto a fluid apron shirt and pencil skirt.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGardening has become a source of happiness \u2014 for me, and now for my team. This collection invites you to share in that joy,\u201d Smith said, offering plenty of feminine, calming and elegant garments to enjoy living in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the summer, Lafayette 148\u2019s Emily Smith invited her design team to her new house in upstate New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,11062,85,46,102932,91817],"class_list":["post-174867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-fashion-show-reviews","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lafayette-148","tag-pre-fall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}