Simply surprising. To find the seasonal color palette, the designer works with Moods: «Women are multifaceted, so I think my way into their different moods.» Javier Reyes is a person who roams the streets, galleries or big cities as a quiet, sociological observer – as he himself puts it: «Designers are also sociologists». So it's no coincidence that his current collection is inspired by Mexico's most famous architect Luis Barragán, the sensual portraits of women from the 1970s by David Hamilton, the book «The Man in the Red Skirt» by Julian Barnes - but equally by the influencer Jenny Walton, who – as Javier Reyes thinks – is «an Audrey Hepburn of our time». Swinging into the leather saddle in a striped dress and not batting an eyelash with a deep black wash when it rattles properly on the uneven cobblestones of the old town – that would probably be in the spirit of the Bernese costume maker, because it is that subtle, sensual nonchalance that he wants to mediate. Or, to paraphrase Hollywood icon Audrey Hepburn: The most beautiful (summer fashion) novels are experienced – and not written.
