Just got off the phone with Libertine’s Johnson Hartig, who took a break from finishing up his fall collection in his LA studio to give us a sneak preview of the pieces he’s showing to press and buyers in New York next week. “The mood of Libertine has changed a little this season,” he told me. “There’s a deeper sense of luxury to it.” Chalk it up to the fifties and sixties nubby tweeds he’s rethought and recycled for fall (Hartig has gone back to using vintage exclusively). The inspiration for this season “morphed about eighteen dozen times,” he says. But the “speckly” feather pieces were inspired by a photo of Jacqueline de Ribes “where she looks like she’d run through a rainstorm,” and you’ll find stripes harking back to pieces he did in 2004. Libertine’s spring collection sold out in three days at Bergdorf Goodman! Note to stores when you’re placing your orders for fall: “Buy deep.”—Florence Kane
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