Nina Ricci Presents Its New Fall/Winter 2024 Collection

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For the Nina Ricci Fall/Winter 2024 collection — his third season for the Parisian House — Creative Director Harris Reed crystallises his vision of a wardrobe for the contemporary Nina Ricci client. Honing the established House vocabulary — sharp tailoring and architectural silhouettes underlined by a frisson of flamboyance — this season’s collection is cut close to the body and cast in contrasting fabrications that reveal or conceal. There is tension within that; a confidence that evokes an effortless yet aloof attitude — and therein lies her magnetism.

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“I was very much inspired by an archival image by Richard Avedon of the actress Suzy Parker wearing Nina Ricci on Avenue Montaigne in 1962. She’s dressed in a classic tweed tailored dress with a fur-lined hood, and she’s wearing gloves but her arms are bare. She looks so self-assured, and iconic in this image,” says Harris Reed. “I wanted to explore this effortless glamour, what I would like to see women wearing on the streets of Paris, today.”

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In the sartorial shapes, menswear codes are reworked into glamorous tuxedo jackets with power shoulders and wide lapels paired with cigarette pants. There are echoes of the 1960s — an iconic period for Nina Ricci with its widely popular crocus suit — in the twin-set knitted suits, cropped jackets with square necklines and the short, sculptural flared coats. Jackets with peplum structures and long-line, liquid-like evening gowns enhance a curved silhouette, while ruffled, asymmetric skirts hold the same hip-hugging allure. To temper the tailoring, draped silk dresses alive with graphic prints and sheer silk ensembles with trailing scarves are sensual and fluid. Faux-shearling hoods and neat pillbox hats enhance the overall charisma and character.

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A dance of contrasts draws focus to a suggestion of skin. Lace bodysuits are worn underneath full-length faux fur coats, while single-button deep-V suit jackets, high-neck blouses with long sleeves and plunging necklines, and floorskimming evening dresses or skirts with the shoulders and decolletage left bare. Considered use of fabrics sees wool crepe, velvet, and sumptuous silk mingle with shiny mock-croc leather and enduring House touches of houndstooth and tweed. A sophisticated colour palette feels instinctively Parisian, timeless black and white, oxblood red and purple, brought to life with pops of electric blue.

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This season, the familiar couture bow motif is employed as part of the architecture of the silhouette, a sculptural drape or dramatic finesse, rather than an embellishment. To accessorise boldly graphic costume jewellery in the guise of bows and apples, is the result of a collaboration with the Paris-based jeweller Hugo Kreit.

COLLABORATION WITH CHARLOTTE TILBURY

The beauty look for the Fall/Winter 2024 presentation has been created in collaboration with the British luxury make-up and skincare brand Charlotte Tilbury. Creating a signature look for the models, Charlotte and her team of international make-up artists bring their signature glamour to the fluid romanticism of the collection.

ABOUT HARRIS REED

Harris Reed joined the Maison as Creative Director for ready-to-wear, accessories and fragrance in September 2022. The British-American designer and Central Saint Martins graduate made his name in London with his eponymous demicouture label, which celebrates the beauty of fluidity with designs that create conversations. An influential figure within a new generation of zeitgeist-defining young creatives, he was honoured by the British Fashion Council as one of 15 Leaders of Change at the Fashion Awards 2022. His designs have been worn by bold-faced cultural icons, including Harry Styles, Florence Pugh, Adele, Solange Knowles and Emma Watson.

ABOUT NINA RICCI

Since its inception in Paris by Maria “Nina” Ricci and her son Robert Ricci in 1932, Nina Ricci has represented bold and optimistic femininity. Channelling an independent, powerful and artistic sensibility encapsulated by the storied fragrance ‘L’Air du Temps’, created in 1948, the Maison encourages individuals to flourish and feel their best. Archive symbols including the Three Graces, doves, apples and flowers combine with contemporary craftsmanship.