Xtreme Vogue London Desk: Donna Robert
Designer Emily Adams Bode Aujla unveiled the highly anticipated collection in a special co-ed show at Paris Men’s Fashion Week.
A few years ago, at the 2021 Met Gala, Lorde appeared on the red carpet in one of the strangest and most miraculous ensembles in Met Gala history. It was a white silk skirt and open front jacket, beaded with delicate metal work and studded with cabochons, and she had little white slippers on her feet and a crown, by the New York jeweler Jean Prounis, on her head. It was sexy, weird, luxurious, and so not what you might expect from Emily Adams Bode Aujla, a woman who’s made her name with darling men’s jackets made of old quilts. Lorde looked not only dressed but adorned. Somehow, too, there was a sense that these clothes, though designed for one of the most publicity-frenzied events in the entertainment and fashion worlds, were really Lorde’s. That they had some history and personal meaning to them; that she had some kind of deep and enchanting connection to the cloth.
Bode Aulja has made a highly influential mark on men’s fashion since she launched, in 2016, her line of jackets and pants cut into simple silhouettes from old quilts and reproductions of antique textiles. But that Met Gala moment hinted that she had a lot to say about womenswear.
