Models can be an designers’ better inspiration, injecting life into a look, some on and off the runway. For Lagerfeld, them was Ines de la Fressange, for Galliano, it is Lady Harlech. Just sometimes, the couturier and model are one and the same, the cause and the effect. Such is the case with former model Stine Goya and her eponymic new collection of stark womenswear.
Later modeling for such luminaries as Lagerfeld and styling for Harper’s Bazaar, the Danish Stine enrolled in Central St. Martins. Her graduation collection was shown in Copenhagen alongside fellow Central Saint Martins alum and Scandinavian talent Henrik Vibskov. But it wasn’t until completing a “sabbatical” year as style manager for the Danish magazine Cover, that Goya’s collection took flight.
The results are both dramatic—a graphic patterned dress with a short, layered skirt and a fitted bodice—and subtle—the slightly rounded neckline and shortened sleeves of a typical cardigan. Even a button-down shirt has the Stine Goya seal, as a traditional collar is replaced in the shape of a rectangle. The fall/winter collection, inspired by New York’s jazz artists of the 1930s and 1940s, walks the line between luxe and leisure, offering unexpected pairings like a gold waistcoat with jeans
