In the hot, muggy throes of summer, what’s a lot of appealing than slippy into a slinky slip?
Enter Refine, a brand new London-based label impressed by the classic sweet-nothing from former Net-a-Porter editor Anina Hée.
“I really wanted to make something that is resistant to trends because that’s the way I shop; I wouldn’t buy something that wouldn’t endure more than one season,” says the Swiss-born designer whose own closet is filled with discreetly chic pieces by The Row and Khaite. “The slip has been a staple for decades and it still is today.”
Taking inspiration from ’90s fashion icons such as Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and the Prada runway, Refine’s debut collection features six luxuriously spare styles—including a particularly alluring calf-skimming bias-cut dress and
high-waisted skirt—cut from significant silk fabric and Crepe Delaware Chine that’s been plain-woven and coloured in European nation.
“I’m very conscious of quality,” Hée says of the built-to-last range, which starts at $200. “My mom always used to say to us kids when we were buying things, ‘Check where it’s made!
’” to it finish, the silhouette-defining fabric has a reassuring heft (in other words, the new slip dresses skim the body rather than cling to it).
“It has this fashion that it flatters of these completely different body varieties and drapes thus nicely,” she says.
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