Josep Font’s latest installment for Delpozo started life as a flowering cactus. The creative director was captivated by Korean painter Kwang-ho Lee’s hyperrealistic renderings of desert blooms, some of which only blossom for a single day. Font took this transience and transformed it into a series of dreamy modern looks. Linear ruffles jutted haphazardly across crepe wool blouses, skirts, and dresses, or trailed delicately over knitwear in a way that felt abstract and organic rather than overtly flowery. Shirting was embellished with bright citrus toile that mirrored the translucence of jellyfish. Sometimes these neon flashes of fabric were draped from shoulder to floor on dresses, or formed panels on structured evening looks.
Everything here had a lightness of touch; even a minimal floor-length pale blush dress, adorned with a few embroidered blooms, had the easy silhouette of an oversize tee. This season saw Font in obsessive pursuit of the perfect pink. The fleshy palette, which borrowed from London illustrator Charlotte Ager, spanned from salmon to crevette to raspberry. Font punctuated these tones with swathes of jade, magenta, and navy. One vibrant coat and another tailored blazer featuring the full spectrum proved this color compatibility perfectly. Candy stripes, in cherry red and pale blue, were an appealing addition to Font’s romantic repertoire. As were the myriad of fresh accessories: oversize water lily belts, detachable floral embroideries, a new structural moccasin—and the evocatively named bucket-shaped Cactus bag.
