La DoubleJ Spring 2023 Ready-to-Wear

JJ Martin has been living in Italy for 21 years, but its effusive beauty still isn’t lost on her; it can activate a bounty of images, feelings, and perceptions. Despite her intensive traveling across the country, there are still so many surprises and discoveries to be made. “Recently I went to Naples for the first time,” she said at the store presentation of La DoubleJ’s spring collection. “I was flabbergasted. I loved it so much—it’s an insanely gorgeous place.” To put it into La DoubleJ, or LDJ, parlance, Naples is a city with an extremely intense high-vibrational energy—it makes for an over-the-top experience in many ways. No wonder it resonated with Martin’s equally high octane vitality: “I’m just obsessed,” she said. “I’ve also spent so much time in Ischia, the Amalfi coast, Capri, so I wanted to transfer that gorgeous Southern Italy opulent spirit and intensity into the collection.”