The inspiration for the Detroit-based designer Tracy Reese ended as he imagined Hope 2025 collection for flowers. A brown cordroy blazer with a matching a-line pleased skirt? “Like you are going to Spelman in 1952,” Reese said while presenting the range in New York. A ruled floral blouse? “We used to do on bed, and this is a kind of print that I will completely put on a sheet set,” he said. “I always love Woodlock flowers, and I am always researching them. We prepare them again and make them our own,” he said about print. A color combination that she saw in an Instagram photo of the studio of Kenyan artist Velma Rosai-Majdia also increased her interest. Reez said, “There were a pink metalwork sculpture and brown hard wood floors. Although it is not inspired by his work,” Reese said, pointing to a striped cotton dress with a tier skirt, “It’s inspired by colors in that image. I feel really tasty with pink and orange and brown.”
The collection was re-completed with the main pieces of the label-smerting, shift silhouette, and midi skirt-but also new flies, such as wide leg trousers’ running fringes with the seam of widest leg trousers, and the trendy bubble hem dressed in ornaments. The commitment of reeses for designing with durable textiles means that it must be particularly creative in some examples to achieve that look. For the naked eye, a sleeveless leopard dress looked like denim, but “it really got a frame of stretch cotton poplin,” Reese explained. You have to touch it to believe it.
