Imagine grown-up clothes with an insouciant practicality that celebrate your inner weirdo. Photo: Instagram/Phoebe Phileo
When Phoebe Philo, the much-celebrated designer of Chloe and Celine, returned to fashion in 2023 after almost six years away, she did so on her own terms: without shows, stores or influencers but with a sense of what she thought some women, though definitely not all women, might want to wear.
She called her designs Collection A and talked about the desire for seasons to build on one another rather than replace one another.
