Fall 2025 Libertine
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Revolt! Revolt!
What enormous power one small, easy word can elicit. I must admit that lately it's been easy to forget that we individuals have any impact at all. In moments of political unrest one can feel completely helpless. I try to remind myself that we are all very influential. True change comes from the human collective consciousness, so even a small action or thought can contribute to the big picture. Am I the hundredth monkey, safety pins between my teeth? I do feel a deep connection to this theory.
What enormous power one small, easy word can elicit. I must admit that lately it's been easy to forget that we individuals have any impact at all. In moments of political unrest one can feel completely helpless. I try to remind myself that we are all very influential. True change comes from the human collective consciousness, so even a small action or thought can contribute to the big picture. Am I the hundredth monkey, safety pins between my teeth? I do feel a deep connection to this theory.
I channeled the Libertines for this latest collection, and it feels even more relevant now than it did last summer when we were designing it. Historically, Libertines were freethinkers who rejected traditional religious mores in 18th-century France—primarily men like Voltaire and Diderot, though women participated too as salon hostesses, writers, and educated courtesans navigating a world that offered them limited paths to intellectual life. They challenged conventional morality, questioning whether these "moral" codes served society or simply maintained existing power structures, particularly control over women's bodies and choices.
These questions remain urgent today. From decriminalizing sex work to ensure safety and dignity for workers, to bodily autonomy, to the right to authentic self-expression—the fight for freedom from social constraint continues.
Conceived during one of America's most divisive election years, the Libertine collection draws parallels between today's polarizing political climate and 18th-century France, when what you wore was a political act. A pre-Revolutionary noblewoman would be corseted and bustled, wearing a tiny commissioned ship in her hair—her alliance made visible, dangerous, and beautiful at once.
I've reimagined that historical movement through a feminist lens, because the fight for equality, bodily autonomy, and uncensored art and history matters now more than ever. In our digital age of masks and shifting beauty ideals, the Selkie girl makes her statement: she's complex, unapologetic, and impossible to ignore.
Who is she? The answer (even when you strip her down) is simple—she's herself. She is not small, she is not silent; when she arrives, you will take heed.