“Nevertheless she persisted,” is a phrase that describes how Elisabet Stamm manages to make her collections. As if it wasn’t enough to have a business reorganization, the designer had to move home and office. Yet she remained not only steadfast but upbeat, deciding, she said, to do what she could and accept that it would be enough—and it was.
The designer opted for a presentation, which allowed for close-up viewing and the tight edit showed off her hand with denim and performance/street wear. She cut some fierce color-block nylon pants with curved insets, some of which were paired with her brand’s popular puffers, this season cropped short. Also abbreviated was a mini hoodie layered under a ripstop bra top. In terms of denim, there were black jeans with red stitching and another pair in a gray wash, with sheer back leg panels. They were remade five times, Stamm said, to get them just right. Red wash denim and red rose prints spoke to the theme of the collection, which was passion, as in one’s driving force. “I could have given up a million times,” said Stamm in a pre-show interview, “but then I was like, at the end of the day, all that matters is the passion of creation and of being in bloom and in blossoming.” (Hence the rose prints.) Stamm’s presentation, arranged like an enchanted garden, was a kind of passion play in which some of the cast pursued their callings: a drummer drummed and a writer, dressed like a bride, penned love letters.
