the clé eye: fall fashion week 2023—the NY/LON edition

by clé tile | published: Mar 03, 2023

Altuzarra

all fashion images courtesy of vogue.com

mythology foxglove shade duo in mallard and forest

if you’ve followed us for a while you’ll have cottoned onto the fact that we’re big fans of fashion. you might even call us nerds. or at least passionate followers.

for us, fashion–rather than interior decor–is our favorite and most resonant touchstone (surprising for a purveyor of architectural surfaces). but it flows through everything we do, from the tiles we include in our curations (remember our fashion-inspired granny squares tile drop?), the way we structure our collections, how we pair tile, or the way we talk about it with our clients.

of course, fashion – fleeting and ephemeral – is quite unlike tile, which can last decades, if not centuries. but fashion is also that great barometer of culture and sentiment, not to mention a motherlode of inspiration in terms of color, texture, and materiality. much of the fashion we’re drawn to also celebrates increasingly-rare heritage and artisan practices, the kind we celebrate with every tile we offer.

so unsurprisingly, our february/march and september/october “watercooler” conversations involve a fair amount of deconstructing of what we’ve seen and what it all means.

here’s our take on what we saw. it just might inspire our next collection.