Edeline Lee said she sees it as her duty to women to help them to express themselves. All versions of themselves.
Lee wanted to strip everything back and highlight her brand’s signatures: Feminine silhouettes with a strong, modernist attitude.
Edeline Lee turned to dark romance and introversion for fall 2018.
The collection drew from objects in the Neue Galerie’s exhibition, “Wiener Werkstatte 1903 to 1932: The Luxury of Beauty.”
Influenced by the notion of feminine courage, she said she imagined O’Keeffe and wanted to capture her brave spirit.
Edeline Lee walked the line between playful and chic, looking to Dada artist and feminist icon Hannah Höch for inspiration.
The London-based designer was influenced by the British capital and post-Brexit for her spring presentation.
The voluminous, cocooning silhouettes in Edeline Lee’s lineup were inspired by a “yearning for simplicity — everything cleaner, simpler, more pure.”
Edeline Lee experimented with color, proportion and composition for spring.
This was an intellectual lineup that didn’t get bogged down in literal interpretations.
Canadian-born Edeline Lee is known for her sharp, yet feminine shapes.