Haven’t you heard? Brown is the brand new black. 

In case you didn’t discover by scrolling by means of this lookbook, Nili Lotan is “feeling brown.” The hue has been trending since late final yr, taking the highlight on the spring collections. However Lotan isn’t essentially one to bend her knee to passing traits. She’s been at this for over 4 many years, two working independently. Over time, she’s collected an infinite quantity of classic items to reference, largely from the ’70s, that she revisits at the start of every season. This time round, the merchandise that caught her consideration probably the most was a chocolate brown coat with golden buttons. 

“I checked out it and realized I don’t even have a brown coat in my closet, not to mention with gold buttons,” stated Lotan at a preview. Nili Lotan, the model, is intrinsic to Nili Lotan, the lady. It is a designer who every season appears to be like at what she wants and would really like in her closet: it’s an train that informs the best way she items collectively her collections, and, 21 years in, it hasn’t failed her but. 

There have been brown buttery leathers and brown corduroys, brown slinky slips and brown silky blouses. Lotan lower deliciously tailor-made jackets and coats in brown tweeds, herringbones, and plaids. She made barn jackets in coated canvas and even suede (this lineup’s MVP), and paired all this stuff along with her best-selling denims. 

There was a Britishness to the entire affair, however filtered by means of Lotan’s all-American lens: See the barn jackets, cropped to the waist, “she’s not going to the fields, she’s going to work,” stated the designer. Suppose Meghan Markle if she spent a while at Balmoral and wore Ralph Lauren denims and Polo shirting underneath plush Honest Isle knits and a Barbour jacket. “The brown despatched me down this British countryside dream,” stated Nolan. She’s not alone—primarily based on previews and moodboards, you’ll be seeing numerous herringbones, houndstooths, and Prince of Wales checks this New York Style Week. What helped Nolan hit the mark, nevertheless, is that she introduced her tackle this recurring fantasy again Stateside.