The house of Dagmar always has a connection with architecture and design cultivated. That made the test kitchen of WSA, equipped with glass tables and shiny metal furniture, an ideal location for the breakfast presentation of the autumn collection of the brand, which brought creative director Sofia Wallenstam from Stockholm to New York.
Wallenstam, an art collector himself, explained that a sculpted top was inspired by a Matthias van Arkel piece hanging in her own house. That the piece is the current bestseller of the brand is interesting, because women went crazy a few seasons ago for the oversized blowers of Dagmar. Tailoring remains central to the range of this brand-see a natty charcoal pinstripe three-piece ensemble (jacket and pantsuit) and lots of shirting. But a new, welcome softness has come into play, as can be seen in a Chiffon Boogblouse combined with a direct leather jacket/jacket dress.
More nuanced is the way in which Wallenstam and the team have implemented the circling theme that was introduced for the fall 2024 and has abolished the stiffness of last season through a process of deflation. A few woolen cheats with an elastic waist in the track-suit was combined with a blouson jacket of the same material with a beautiful side silhouette, which reveals the circular pattern. A cashmere cardigan crashed in a pouf from Chiffon takes cozy to Cosmopolitan.