Anna Teurnell is in prime type. The Swedish designer—who has simply been named inventive director of Filippa Ok—landed a convincing one-two punch with knock-out pre-fall and fall collections for her namesake label (which she’s going to proceed to steer). Launched simply three years in the past, Teurn Studios is a sleeper model that needs to be higher recognized; particularly as style’s focus has turned to “actual” garments. The standard of the supplies and imaginative and prescient listed below are prime notch, and are available at costs which might be lower than “luxurious.”

The knee-jerk response, based mostly on the model being based mostly in Stockholm and the designer’s desire for suiting, clean-lines and impartial colours, is to explain Teurn Studios as minimal, and sure, that’s a part of the story. However slightly than provide a twist (an overused phrases with implications of wringing one thing dry) on extra classic-leaning items, Teurnell’s mission is to supply, as she stated on a name, elegant garments however “all the time with a little bit of shock.” One in every of this season’s a-ha moments, the selection so as to add a touch-me-soft wool leopard print into an in any other case largely monochrome providing, was contextual. Sample, apart from menswear checks and pinstripes (each of which made appearances this season) is sudden right here—all of the extra so as a result of younger Bob Dylan was one in all Teurnell’s contact factors. (She had been watching a disastrous 1978 interview he did with a Swedish reporter by which the performer wears a leather-based jacket not not like Teurn’s standard taxi-driver topper.)

This wasn’t the one ’70s reference within the assortment which included a pair of culottes paired with a black leather-based bow-blouse and snakeskin mules, in addition to slimmer straight-leg pants. With years of expertise behind her, Teurnell’s imaginative and prescient is assured, exacting and full; she appears to have a complete look in thoughts when designing, going from head (jewellery is a not too long ago added class) to toe. For instance she styled a cashmere sweater and pair of boyish denims product of contrasting supplies back and front with a heel, subverting the casualness of the elements. This assortment elicited need, which it so occurs, is the title of a 1976 Bob Dylan album, fancy that.