Heirlome Pre-Fall 2026

It’s been a rollercoaster year for Heirlome’s Stephanie Suberville, who last month was named a runner-up of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund. With the win behind her and the pressure off, the designer approached her pre-fall offering with a light heart and a colorful palette. “My mindset was very free,” she said. “I design a lot for myself and what I would wear, [the process] is very intuitive and I was definitely thinking . . . ‘Oh, I want this and I want that and I want that.’ ” In place of a red thread running through the collection there were red dresses. One was knitted from bias-cut strips of fabric; the other, in supple silk, was cut without a shoulder seam so that the fabric draped against the body. The two streamers suspended from the waist can be left to hang free or tied at the hip, creating a diagonal across the body. Also side gathered was an ivory skirt which Suberville draped on herself over pants; the suspended waistband elegantly translates that moment of creation.