PRESENTING her AW17 collection with On | Off this season was Edeline Lee, a designer clear about the kind of zen-like vision she has for dressing women. Drawing on this to give her latest pieces a stand-out elegance, Edeline reworked conservative staples with unusual fits and then moved on to more intricate and precise elements – jaunty collar effects and eye-catching but appropriate colour choices of buttons.
Appealing to her clientele, a confident connoisseur of most things with a penchant for subtly dramatic quirks, Lee showed her audience and designer perception is well calibrated.
This was a feeling heightened by the presentation. Poised far from the usual harum-scarum that often unfurls around London during fashion week it allowed one to pay closer attention to the trained hand Lee put to all elements of this collection.
by Livia Feltham
Images by Camilla Glorioso