The American Dream Illustrated Campaign A/W 2021 ‘Mid-life Crisis’ Made some pencil drawings based on Conner’s collection; archetypes of American women and their clichés. ‘For Ives’ A/W 2021 collection’s opening look, ‘The 9 to 5 working Girl’, featuring a folkloric skirt suit with a New Age rising sun motif, paired with rimless glasses and hair slicked back with an elastic hair band, the designer took style cues from his mother. ‘I was thinking about a woman in the middle of her life and the breadwinner in her family,’ he explains. Through a pencil sketch which took 12 hours to create, O’Brien evolved this matriarchal archetype, drawing a conventionally surburban Volvo Estate – the car Ives’ mother used to drive – alongside a vase of flowers, a box of tissues and a leather chaise longue – objects commonly associated with a psychiatrist’s office.’- Laura Hawkins, Wallpaper Magazine Thank you @connerives for the job and thank you @lauranathawkins / @wallpapermag for the lovely words.