Our Legacy Spring 2024 Ready-to-Wear

With smartphones always at hand, we theoretically have acquired third eyes, yet we often cannot believe what we see. The doubleness of stage-managed and retouched images, plus advancements in AI and deepfake technology, continue to splinter reality. In this environment, touch (which implies intimacy or proximity) gains primacy. Christopher Nying played with some of these ideas in his latest Our Legacy collection. Titled Snow in April, it was based, as always, on personal experience, but it also said something about the zeitgeist. If we take everything down to essentials, Nying’s preoccupations this season were light and temperature. Because of the cold and darkness that precede the coming of spring in Sweden, the aspect of “awakening” is especially heightened. More often than not it’s also thwarted; just when you think you can walk barefoot on the lawn, the temperatures will drop, and the newly green landscape will be covered in a magic blanket of snow. Mother Nature’s whims play with the emotions, and, said Nying, introduce an element of indecisiveness into getting dressed: “You don’t really know what to wear.” That uncertain state of mind was reflected in the way Our Legacy’s models wore the collection: dressed for any contingency in many (light) layers.