Exclusive | Alice + Olivia lifts the curtain on Shakespeare-inspired collection

Stacey Bendet introduced the drama.

The Alice + Olivia founder and CEO staged a theatrical fall presentation impressed by none aside from William Shakespeare. 

Admiring the finery had been celebrities like Julianne Hough, Tiffany Haddish, Anna Cathcart, Gavin Casalegno, Ming Lee Simmons, Jenny Mollen and Dani Stahl.

“The entire theme was ‘Shakespeare is in Love,’ and every set is a distinct Shakespeare play,” Bendet informed Alexa, including that the road is richly ornamented with elaborations like lace-trimmed cuffs and collars and jacquard shot with gold. “I really feel like garments are going to be actually costly this yr, so let’s make it value it!”

In preparation for the season, the model’s design crew visited the The Royal Shakespeare Firm’s archive and costume rent assortment in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. The exceptional repository catalogs clothes, millinery, jewellery, armory, footwear and different objects courting all the best way again to 1879. 

Utilizing these artifacts as a place to begin, Bendet usual an embroidered skirt of sonnets, Sixteenth-century impressed lantern skirts and capes and a Girl Macbeth-inspired black velvet corset gown.

Dozens of fashions posed in tableaux vivants harkening again to the well-known works: A floral fantasy recalling “Midsummer Evening’s Dream;” a balcony overlooking a backyard from “Romeo and Juliet,” and a gold backdrop invoking The Service provider of Venice.

“The fantastic thing about this assortment exemplifies how we are able to be taught a lot from the previous to create within the current,“ stated Bendet.

Her good friend Julianne Hough, who glided into the celebration sporting a crisp white caped vest and pants, informed Alexa that she admires Bendet’s fertile creativeness. “Style can generally really feel fairly stuffy – we take issues so severely. She does such an awesome job at creating enjoyable and play. It’s at all times a blast.”