Nina Ricci – FALL 2022 READY-TO-WEAR
For the first season since the exit of former artistic directors Lisi Herrebrugh and Rushemy Botter, the Nina Ricci studio led by Nana Baehr homed in on who today’s Nina Ricci woman is by first looking at the archives.
“Robert Ricci always said that he served women, not served himself through them. So this collection is about easy shapes. You just don’t want to wear so many conceptual things right now,” Baehr said.
And served they were. The studio offered up sharply tailored daywear, colorful sweaters and easy print dresses. Capes, a 1960s house favorite, were the key outerwear shape, offered in a variety of guises, from straightforward wool to a voluminous red coat in glossy ripstop nylon with a detachable capelet stood out. Fun touches, like a two-in-one hat made of a felt cloche shape covered with a wool beanie — both could be worn independently, too — or the brand-new puffy shoulder bag, made for playful styling options.
The season’s video featured a six-strong cast of real women, among which were London-based ecology activist Zinnia Kumar and LGBTQ activist Charley Dean Sayers. “Savoir-faire is really cool, but we didn’t want to [just] show hands working,” Baehr explained. Seeing them chatting and exploring the brand’s Parisian headquarters drove home the idea that the Ricci woman aspires to be all work and all play.
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