Fall/Winter 2024 — a letter from Carin

Clothes are never quite as interesting as the women who wear them. Garments act as an extension of a woman. Her feelings, her expression, her desires.

For Fall/Winter 2024, I was drawn to women whose lives and living are interwoven with their artistic output – Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning. The greats of the abstract expressionism art movement in postwar America. Their confidence, independence, and force of talent is mind-blowing. These women changed American art and society, tearing up the prevailing social code and replacing it with a doctrine of liberation.

With this collection, I aimed to capture that sense of strength, freedom, and attraction that a strong sense of self radiates. This is seen across Fall/Winter 2024 with our confronting use of color and print, textural explorations, and straightforward silhouettes.

Where the collection truly comes alive is on the body, this is its allure. There is, at times, a no-fuss simplicity to the garments, but when draped, layered, and paired in unanticipated ways that becomes the blueprint for the season.

There’s an inevitability to this approach to dress. A certainty in unexpected combinations and spontaneity that lead to an altogether distilled point of view. Rich but not complicated. Eclectic but not messy. Intelligent but not distanced.

This is the unconformist’s uniform.