When fashion designers turn their attention to interiors
From tabletop pieces to chic lighting, now your home can look as good as you do.
Image of Lucy Folk’s home via Badlands Journal
As we have hibernated at home over the past year, lots of us have found ourselves reconsidering our living spaces – and discovered a renewed appreciation and need for stylish interiors. And turns out, fashion designers are apparently, no exception to the trend.
Luxury fashion designers who gained recognition on the runway aren’t strangers to dipping into other categories, be it jewellery, beauty or fragrance. Usually, the ones who work across homewares as well are the big names like Ralph Lauren, Missoni or even Fendi. But over the past few months, a swathe of Australian designers have also turned their attention to interior design, and released new lockdown-inspired homeware collections.
Lucy Folk, Reliquia and the co-founder of The Daily Edited are just some of the designers dipping their toe into interior decor, and creating picnic-perfect pastel cutlery sets, coloured glassware, cute-as-a-button gingham napkins and quirky plate sets.
Now if there’s a single theme here that unites this new breed of Covid-inspired homeware collections, it’s a love of playful, retro glamour, and I have all for it.
Image via The Round House
Call it a reaction to the greige minimalism that has swept social media for years, or a natural desire to find joy in what’s inarguably been a fairly bleak year, but the new designer tableware offerings definitely, in Marie Kondo’s immortal words, “spark joy”.
There’s a real sense of playfulness and optimism. It’s no longer about having the perfectly co-ordinated décor – and more about a personal touch with pieces that are a statement on their own.
It’s no coincidence that this wave of interiors collections has a distinctly ‘70s vibe – There’s currently a major ‘70s influence – in both colour and design – in fashion – or that the trend is eminently ‘grammable.
But after a year of spending less time in restaurants and more time at home, it’s nice to bring a sense of occasion and some fun to the dinner table.
image via Reliquia