Twenty is the new twenty.

Marni is, I believe, a label by women for women and Spring/Summer 2015 sees the brand celebrate twenty years of creating beautiful, sculptural, sometimes clunky-looking clothes. 

As I looked through the images I wasn't immediately in love with this collection; but I was being impatient. The first looks seemed to be toiles of the collection, as if they were highlighting the simple elegance of the pieces to the viewers eye before they really let loose. Soon monochrome and monastic gave way to bold and beautiful.

The Castiglioni's have spent twenty years honing the brand and this collection shines. Powerful, collected, beautiful and assured. Happy birthday Marni. I wish I'd been the same way at twenty.

Love worn

I grew up in a house where things were often kept for "best". As a result some of my favorite things were rarely worn. I loved them but I didn't wear them. I took them out of the wardrobe or drawer to look at them and try them on but I rarely wore them out. Looking back on it now it seems strange but I lived on a very small island with very few places to actually go so maybe it made sense in a way.

There were also garments that had been in the house for aeons. Worn, loved, faded, torn, mended and patched, bleached by sea and sun they were perfectly destroyed. Hanging on nails in the back porch these clothes had a history and were on standby for the next time they were to test their mettle.

It's in this vein that items by Carrier Company from Norfolk, England are made. To be worn and loved and worn and loved over and over. Plain canvas, simple shapes, durable, classic pieces built for life and for living in.

Smocks, overalls, roomy bags, pleat front shorts that your grandpa would've worn and button up jackets that have deep pockets the perfect size for a paperback book. They'll become your most dependable friend, a fellow adventurer, a much-worn favorite and never ever kept for "best".