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In case you were wondering, the term office siren hasn’t quite hit Aje. So under the warm pink light of Edwina Forest and Adrian Norris’s first indoor show, their resort 2027 collection, titled Siren, took on a whole new meaning—at least this American’s eyes. (In case you were still wondering, down under, the term refers to a “really gorgeous surfing girl.”) “So much of Australia is a rural background, but then there's so much of this surf culture. So we wanted to mix all these things,” Forest said of the collection after the show.
Mix they did. The two took a figurative road trip, picking up Australiana aesthetics along the way. Low-slung, manufactured “leather” skinny pants were paired with a matching wetsuit-inspired tube top and an oversized scarf for good measure and variable temperatures. (Autumn in Sydney presents quite testy weather conditions after all.) For a dash of Western romance, metal-tipped leather straps topped off a diaphanous ruffled gown. All the while, pieces and details such as these all sat alongside a crocheted set whose swishing raffia hem provided a dash of ASMR down the carpeted runway.
This season’s slight hardened edge might feel like a left turn from the lighter daywear of recent seasons past, but for the design duo, pieces such as the penultimate drop-waist dress made from white silk gauze felt like a return to their earliest days, just now with the benefit of a professional team to help them finish off any rough edges. “It looks like something that we did 20 years ago,” Norris said. Two decades ago is definitely a deep cut, but reinventing your roots is shaping up to be a prevailing theme of the week.
