The Row RTW Spring 2023

What's a perfectly juicy fig got to do with fashion?

At The Row, Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen have the instinct to distill luxury down to the essence, whether it's making fantastically fine women's clothing or serving up sweet take-out food after a fashion show: fresh, ripe figs presented on silver platters.

How simple, how decadent.

This also applies to their clothes.

In a baroque hall behind the Ritz with a smoldering soundtrack by Chris Isaak "Wicked Game" and several models sporting '90s Linda Evangelista-style crops, the collection was so transporting you could almost see those old Herb Ritts images and feel the ocean waves crashing.

After several years of dizzying collaboration fever and logos-a-gogo, there is a real nostalgia for the simplest, cleaner and minimal fashion. Just check out all of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy's Instagram fan accounts and the coastal grandma's trending aesthetic to find out.

The Row still delivers on that promise, and this collection had one foot in the multi-million beach house dollars and the other in the city penthouse, with the immaculate tailoring and in-home luxury lifestyle wardrobe that Nancy Meyers dreams of in Hollywood.

Men's blazers in black or cream were split in the back or at the sleeves for ventilation, had a puffy cape overlays or double-breasted waist pinches. They were layered over crisp shirts, flowy pants, slipdresses, fitted shorts, or just high-quality boxers, and worn with luxe leather thongs, pointed-toe flats, or tennis sneakers and socks. crumpled.

Evening outfits have a crumpled elegance, with ivory or black column dresses with deliberately crumpled cocooning volumes . Toga-like dresses, falling in the sheets, wrapped around the body, with trains that the models themselves carried in their gloved hands.

Meanwhile, a beautiful crochet lace doily dress and sparkly fishnet dresses had a real heritage - and heiress - quality. For when she wants to take a break from sewing, maybe.