The Capsule 24

Shop The Capsule: https://tibi.com/pages/collections-the-capsule A letter from Founder & Creative Director: Amy Smilovic “We can never know what to want, because living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.” ~The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera I think about this quote often. How do we know what we truly want? Is it the feeling we get in our veins that results in tiny bumps along our arms? Or is it a well-plannedmatrix of past and future needs? I’m wonderfully comfortable living in the grey here with knowledge that the answer is definitively neither black nor white. To draw on one more quote, “to every time there is a season….” There is a time for planning, applying critical thinking and creating a SWOT-like analysis to your closet. And then there are times when I crave to be impulsive and just fall in love with something. No explanation required. No other rationalization needed otherr than knowing it feels right. When creating this Capsule, Traci and I filled our atelier with some 50-plus beautifully draped prototypes, fabric swatches enticingly spread out, leathers, laces, and rich yarns. But rather than inspiring us, it felt overwhelming. We had just developed and shown our Fall 24 collection – we’d used all the fuel in our right and left brains to create items that we loved and that had a place in our closet and in our day-to-day lives, pieces that we could defend based on exactl