@tessa_bruinsma wears all @jilsander for @lovewant Issue 26 🖤 The Jil Sander woman is often described as sophisticated, but she contains more multitudes than that. Her sophistication is a many layered thing (layers of creamy wool, satin, and bouclé in inky black, buttery yellow and soft angora grey.) She is mysterious and enigmatic, but in a warm and unpretentious way. When she speaks, she doesn’t waste words. If she lived in London, I like to think she’d live in the Barbican. I’d visit her there, in her simple, stylish apartment. She would have a lot of books, and eat food drizzled in extra virgin olive oil. Her laugh would show her teeth – neat, but not Hollywood white (a slightly stained smile is infinitely more elegant than a mouthful of Miramax bleach.) For our heroine, what she wears does not define her, but she is aware that - when worn with the correct attitude - clothes can be the architecture of the self. They are the house in which her body lives, and they come to life when she inhabits them. She wears things with a certain nonchalance because she knows that when clothes are thoughtfully made, they require no overthinking from the wearer. Ultimately, to be a Jil Sander woman is to know style, but to also know oneself. It is to move confidently between spaces and places like the undulating forms and creamy fabrics that characterise Lucie and Luke Meier’s clothes. It is to share in their study of essentialism - each collection a new dialect in a language that speaks in silence, a rare breed in an industry of shouts. FALL/WINTER 2022 by @JILSANDER BY LUCIE AND LUKE MEIER. #jilsander #lucieandlukemeier Photographer: David Abrahams @david_ablehams Stylist: Bridie Gilbert @bridie.gilbert MUA: Kristina Ralph @kristinaralphandrews Hair Stylist: Mike O’Gorman @mikeogorman_ Words @bfg_graham Special thanks to @adam_ridgeway for design and @vivamodel for their support Digi op: Ottilie Landmark @ottilielandmark Photo Assistant: Wynston Shannon @wynston_shannon Styling assistant: Mariangela Orlando @mariangelaoorlando