For resort, Lafayette 148’s Emily Smith wanted to “do something that sort of celebrated mother nature in some sense.” So she and her team packed up and took to the Arctic in search of the Northern Lights. In Norway, they went on many different adventures trying to see the celestial show. “It’s not a given that you’re going to see those things; the first night there was a blizzard so we booked a tour—you kind of have to chase the light.”

And chase the light she did, infusing her new collection with holographic details and their solid-color counterpart, a heavenly pastel palette. In the former category were a super-thin gold crackled leather explorer jacket and midi-length skirt, a sensible beige sweater woven with very un-sensible tinsel, and all manners of starry embellishments like sequi

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