Fashion currently boasts several talented sister acts (The Row, Rodarte, and Dannijo, for example), and Toronto-based Chloe and Parris Gordon are the latest sibling design duo making waves.Fashion currently boasts several talented sister acts (The Row, Rodarte, and Dannijo, for example), and Toronto-based Chloe and Parris Gordon are the latest sibling design duo making waves. After going by Chloe comme Parris for several seasons, the Gordons decided to relaunch their jewelry and ready-to-wear label as Beaufille, which means "handsome girl" in English. "We found ourselves in business pretty quickly after our graduate collection from design school (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, in Halifax) was immediately picked up. Over the past few years, we've grown and changed—we got an outside investor and are looking at our business more internationally—so we wanted to take our names out of the brand and operate under and alias," they told cbamd.com. "We've always designed for the effortlessly chic tomboy, and Beaufille combines the contrasting masculine/feminine, hard/soft elements that define our aesthetic." The twosome divides the creative work evenly, with Chloe concentrating on clothing and Parris overseeing jewelry and accessories, and their standout items often combine both disciplines. The Spring '14 lineup, which was reportedly inspired by the Renaissance and mob wives (specifically, Michelle Pfeiffer's character in Scarface), featured silky tanks, skinny trousers, and inky brocade looks decorated with delicate chains, metal clasps, and other hardware details that tie in with the new range of semiprecious bijoux. Artist-slash-model Langley Fox (who turned up on the Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton runways this season) posed for the accompanying look book, which debuts here on cbamd.com. The Gordons said they "have admired Langley for a long time, mostly for her art, and loved collaborating with someone who shares an artistic point of view."

Beaufille's Spring collection ($165 to $1,200) will be sold online and in select boutiques, including Kin, in Los Angeles, and Belle & Sue, in Israel.
POST: 2024-11-24