Adam Lippes Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear

Adam Lippes discovered Natasja Sadi on Instagram. He shares a passion for flowers with the Dutch couturier-turned baker-turned floral designer, and when they hit it off over a two-hour Zoom she agreed to collaborate for his new spring collection. The prints on a button-front shirt and matching full skirt and a tiered trapeze slip dress are collaged from the photos Sadi takes of her arrangements, which feature both real flowers and sugar ones. Lippes won’t let that charming detail go unappreciated when he takes to the road with this collection later this month. He has stores in over a dozen US cities on his itinerary. In the age of e-commerce, that kind of personal attention can make a difference to a shopper. She might also learn that the embroidery of a Delftware vase and flowers on a sleeveless ivory dress took upwards of 150 hours to complete. That the delicate lace collars on Lippes’s menswear shirts were inspired by an antique Dutch bonnet sampler. Or that Albertus Swanepoel is the milliner responsible for the deeply brimmed bucket hats designed to coordinate back to the clothes.