PRISCAVera fall winter 2023

PRISCAVera presents the fall winter 2023 collection in New York.

The PRISCAVera A/W 2023 collection summons the brand's roots: complex tailoring for minimalistic results and an ongoing investigation into the shifting boundaries of empowerment, sensuality, and elegance. 

The PRISCAVera woman is emerging from the night and into the workday bringing along the same bossy attitude, materialized in suiting, work clothes, and off-time attire. She is shedding her party clothes and walking into the day, at once assertive and carefree. The collection's mood this season could be described as “liquid armor,” a shield to face the cold weather and everyday life head-first. The collection combines casual looks, office attire, and eveningwear with a modular approach that makes most pieces interchangeable through personal styling. These follow three thematic threads: “bossy gothic,” “bare minimum sex appeal,” and “back to the office,” with repeating silhouettes transformed by different textiles.

The PRISCAVera woman has a contemporary identity in that she knows everything is in flux–she dresses for herself, but she is also aware that clothing is communication. PRISCAVera takes a bold approach to fashion’s hazy nature: authenticity can coexist with fantasy, and approachability is in the eye of the beholder. I can be the actual me one day and the other the next.

The brand’s signature development of logo prints sees the introduction of denim jacquard in familiar silhouettes: a newly shaped corset, a low-rise pannier miniskirt, baggy trousers, and a matching jacket with lace-up details. Mesh, a continually investigated textile in PRISCAVera, comes in a softer variation with a green tartan print, while contrast stitch suits, skirts, and corsets in black and white walk alongside a system of hounds-tooth garments.

For evenings, coppery metallic and luminous pink silks, a metallic silver lurex, and velvet burnout make up a series of semi-transparent liquid tops, slip dresses, trousers, button-up dresses, and shirts with ultra-feminine shapes and details like key-holes and knots. On off days, she spends her time in velvet rugby shirts and tailored cotton shirts with lace-up details that match boxer shorts or trousers. 

This season is an all-encompassing approach to the different lives of the PRISCAVera woman: perhaps she goes to the office, and she dresses up sometimes, she asserts her femininity without necessarily suffering the cold weather, she pays attention to the details, but she doesn’t overthink them either. 

Her clothes are her allies, and they go wherever she goes.  

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