Ralph Lauren staged spring inside the gilded Italian Renaissance Revival landmark at 108 Leonard, with white marble columns and oil-brushed coffered ceilings framing a woman ready to cut loose. The brand turns sixty next year, and the building’s enduring bones made the anniversary metaphor hard to miss.
Lauren’s hand was everywhere, in hand-painted and burnout silks, ombré shearling, and full skirts deliberately rumpled through a process he calls spritz and tumble.
Elegance at a Ralph Lauren show is a given. Spring proved it does not always have to arrive with restraint.
The first look set the tone, a corseted silk brocade top with a plunging waist worn over wide-legged trousers, austere and a little subversive at once.
Spring 2027 is an irreverent take on romance that creates a new elegance, Lauren wrote in the show notes, describing the freedom and fun of a style that is truly personal.
