Giulietta

Sofia Sizzi's collections are always the upside of the '60s - beautiful pastels, embroidery, and always a cuteness to them. For fall she's keeping the cute but scratching the happy. Cue a sad romance novel, the Giulietta girl is heartbroken. While exploring the darker side of things, Sofia inadvertently forced the collection to grow and find the strength that comes with heartbreak. Every obstacle is a way for us to grow stronger, and distance and solitude help give us space to do just that.

Sofia: In this collection we are exploring heartbreak so it's a deeper subject than before and it's the idea of exploring the emotions going through a woman's heart when she's heartbroken. It's about love, obsession, defeat and doubt. The photographs of Diane Arbus in the 1960s came to me - they portray suburban america and are more intense than the happy '60s we're used to seeing and used to exploring at Giulietta. There's a really cool movie from the 1980s called Frantic with the young Emanuelle Seigner that was one of my inspirations. So the combination of the tougher '60s and '80s has influenced a shift in our silhouettes. You're going to see leather, which we've never worked with before. There's these shorter dresses, leather jackets, puffier sleeves. There's also love messages hidden throughout the collection.

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