Heirlome Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear

In New York, tonal dressing and soft-to-the-touch fabrics have predominated this season. Heirlome, the brand founded by Stephanie Suberville (designer) and Jeffrey Axford (CEO) in 2022, engages with those trends—but with a point of difference. Each Heirlome collection features partnerships with artisans in Suberville’s native Mexico and elsewhere. Suberville is not outsourcing production but inviting them to engage with the design process. This creates newness for a line that evolves rather than changes directions twice a year, and it also preserves craft that’s in danger of being lost. As the brand name suggests, longevity is a core brand value. Heirlome, the designer explained, is the middle English way of spelling heirloom (which is how the name is pronounced). It’s usually jewelry, rather than clothing, that is shared among generations, Suberville noted. Working closely with artisans, she has come to think of an heirloom not only as an object, but “as a tool or as a skill that you can pass on.” The idea, she said in a 2024 interview is to create “different ways to connect the world with what I’m doing, more than just beautiful clothes that you can pass on to your kids, it’s also the love for the artisans and the preserving of art and culture.”