“Pre-fall for me is always a really fun collection to design because it’s kind of a problem in my mind that you have to solve for women,” Lily Miesmer said during a preview of her and Jack Miner’s latest Interior collection. “It’s the least chic time of year, and so it’s really about problem solving how to dress when you actually can’t wear clothes. It’s about storytelling through practicality and way less about storytelling for storytelling sakes. The heat is a problem.”
Opting out of a conceptual narrative, the duo whipped up humor-tinged, lighthearted (and weighted), easy clothes for those steaming hot summer days. Case in point: a handful of shorts, including a great pair of board shorts (paired with a drapey cotton jumper); tropical weight wool boxer shorts; pedal pushers with breezy shirting (a cobalt blue button up in nylon); vintage-inspired denim shorts “that’s perfectly thrashed and doesn’t look tacky,” Miesmer said, and a pair of tailored white suiting shorts with a backless “mullet” blazer.
Elsewhere, classic ribbed tanks came in fully fashioned viscose while racerback bodysuits and dresses nodded to the “‘90s swim team Speedo racerbacks that we all had,” while a drapey pale butter yellow gown offered the answer to “lazy girl evening” with its chic take on pajama dressing.
To round it all out, they played with plenty of white, lightweight fabrications that continued to merge Interior’s chic sensibility with wearability. These included a cotton minidress that played to the illusion of stuffing classic men’s shirts into a miniskirt; a shirt dress overlaid with a wrapped, tube-like bodice; a dress made up of a men’s streetwear-inspired long-sleeve t-shirt with puffy bubble skirt, and corset dressing with black peekaboo eyelash lace accents.