Backstage at the Winter Presentation

Two minutes before a show, the room is pure logistics with a heartbeat. Pins in a jam jar. Steam crossing the air like weather. Someone ironing the Ivory trench that Mara insists must look 'worn once, loved twice'. Her exact words, every season.

The scarlet pieces exit in the final third: the Statement Dress, the Mini Chain Bag, the Twilly knotted once around a strap. Deborah plans the scarlet like a chord: you don't hear it the whole way through, then it lands and resolves.

My knits went first, which is a knitwear joke: you open the show with the calm pieces so the room lowers its voice. The Cashmere Crew walked with sleeves pushed up. We pre-broke the rib at the elbow in the atelier for exactly how it was worn.

Then the music (a resident, vinyl only, naturally), and thirty seconds where nobody remembers there's an audience. Then applause, and the immediate question from everyone backstage: what do we fix before the buy meeting?

Yuki Tanaka, Knitwear Lead