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You have to find other ways to grow.” He notes that, while wholesale has struggled, Stine Goya’s DTC e-commerce channel is still strong in the UK; it has a bonded warehouse in the country, which means it does not have to pay customs duties on goods shipped from Denmark.
His last show for the house, just a week ago, was followed not only by rave reviews but also a knighthood: the designer was awarded France’s highest distinction, the chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur by Vogue’s Anna Wintour at Paris’s Le Laurent, in front of a crowd that included Gwendoline Christie, Robert Pattinson, Kieran Culkin, Jeremy O Harris, Chitose Abe, Rick Owens and Delphine Arnault.
The resulting core pieces, dubbed “everyday Icons”, include black leather bomber jackets with matching elasticated trousers; grey jersey cotton dresses with ruched knot finishes and an asymmetrical skirt hem; and logoless dotted rhinestone ecru hoodies, which are designed to be “the kind of clothing that people notice”, she says.