Simon Miller Resort 2023

Chelsea Hansford took a trip down the rabbit hole to Alice’s Wonderland for resort. “I wanted to build a world where everything would be nonsense,” she said during a preview, “where everything that is isn’t and everything that isn’t is.” She was inspired by the multiple realities we seem to be living in right now, particularly by how the metaverse seems to be building another world right in front of our eyes. Clothing for the multiverse, perhaps; for everything, everywhere, all at once. Trippy surrealism seems to be becoming a new normal in fashion. Recently we’ve seen collections populated by toy-car dresses, torso handbags, and upside down heels–things that aren’t what they are, or are what they aren’t. Here, a one-shoulder sequin zebra jumpsuit, a set in rectangular mirror paillettes, and an abstract snake print swim set took the spotlight, but where Hansford was better was in her more subtle, monochrome pieces (well, as subtle as Simon Miller gets under her direction).