When business is good, Emilia Wickstead goes bold.

The New Zealand-born designer just returned from the U.S. and a source close to her revealed that it’s her biggest market and that her fall 2025 collection has been her strongest to date.

So, how does Wickstead celebrate such good news? By diving into her pile of books and inviting her guests to her second home, her store on Sloane Street.

This season she chose to spotlight American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. She elegantly interpreted his erotic floral photographs and some elements of his bondage imagery.

A white denim suit with a neat black necktie featured flower blooming; harness straps had a softer edge as they sneaked their way into dress collars and shoulders, and a geometric miniskirt came layered with a cage in the same

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