EDELINE LEE Spring Summer 2021 Film

LONDON FASHION WEEK 21 SEPTEMBER 2020 Digital Premiere 3PM The film begins with a shot of a domestic interior. We are in a beautiful, light-filled reception room with stripped-back, golden walls and a grand fire surround. The room is still, calm and sparsely-decorated. A clock is ticking. Suddenly, from behind a grey 1930s Svenskt Tenn armchair, a woman crawls out. She sits down, looks around, then leaves the room, just as her carbon copy appears again from behind the chair. In an homage to Zbigniew Rybczynski, the room gradually fills up with superimposed, multiplying perspectives of the same woman. She is in a frenzy of domesticity: repeatedly scrubbing clean the mantelpiece and windows, grooming her hair, rehearsing conversations, exercising, decorating the room, reading lazily, sleeping fretfully, and licking the icing off of a homemade cake. In the end, she dances alone – wildly and joyfully – accompanied only by her many layered selves. For Spring Summer 2021, EDELINE LEE “wanted to capture something of the internal, emotional landscape of lockdown. It’s such a strange and difficult moment – the sense of waiting and repetition, anxiety, and the surprising small pleasures that we discover on the way. In our solitude, we have interacted with our space and ourselves in a new way.” The collection features complex, three-dimensional details and confident shapes, expanding on the feminine and spirited vocabulary of EDELINE LEE’s oeuvre. The house’s signature, univer