“I started with heritage fabrics and then had fun with granny pastimes – bingo, crochet and keeping budgies,” said Henry Holland by way of explanation. “Then we added pearls – our girl is too young for a pearl necklace, so we put them on her dress and made it sexy.” Which it was: fine tweed mini dresses had pearls running over each shoulder that looked like they might roll off at any second. Despite the budget connotations of crochet and bingo, House of Holland has never looked more luxe. Holland’s enthusiasm for the job was apparent in bingo ball-printed tights and crochet scarves wrapped around chiffon dresses of an identical print, but there were some seriously wearable, super-cool clothes – crochet-printed, Swarovski-encrusted chiffon that would dazzle in the glare of the paparazzi; tweed midi skirts that gave a glimpse of little lace slips, and fitted tweed trousers teamed with silk blouses printed with birdcages, a motif that recurred on softly sexy housecoats. Retro? Yes. Tongue-in-cheek? Of course. But high quality all the same.
Report by Dolly Jones, Editor, vogue.com
Photography by catwalking.com
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