Kelly Wearstler at Perchance Boutique

You may know Kelly Wearstler as an interior-design maven and extravagant fashion enthusiast (who can forget her outlandish outfits and hats on Bravo's Top Design?), but it seems she has her taste-making sights set much higher than your couch or coffee table. Hoping to translate her eye for design to the fashion realm, Kelly will be launching a collection this fall that includes clothes, jewelry, clutches, and scarves. Wearstler thought it would be a smooth transition because "so much of my influence in interior design comes from fashion and everything relating to fashion, from jewelry, which can be reminiscent of sculpture, to the colors and silhouettes that I find in clothing." The crossover influence of interior design is definitely apparent and purposeful throughout the collection: "it feels like it could be a few rooms in a house." The collection is exclusive to Bergdorf Goodman for fall, and will be sold in a special space designed by Wearstler herself. Sharing in Wearstler's point of view won't come cheap, though—price points range from $205-$1,395 for clothes; $155-$995 for jewelry; and $795-$995 for bags. (WWD)

The collection has been in the works for four years, said Wearstler, dressed in a funky mix of clothes ("I still crawl around in smelly thrift stores looking for cool things," she said), including Hysteric Glamour jeans, a fraying Iro jacket, a vintage belt, Martin Margiela boots and a Balenciaga coral bracelet.
The most challenging part was sourcing the materials. "Designers don't want to share where they have things made. So we relied on a lot of people to make our ready-to-wear samples who do our sculptures and other things. And the handicap ended up being cool because it gave our pieces a different hand," she said.
Wearstler seems to be enjoying how her interior design work is informing her clothing design and vice-versa. She has both design teams working together in the same office. And you can see the resemblance between her decorative bobble-stone boxes and a pyrite charm bracelet; between a perforated metal vase and a perforated metal cuff bracelet; between the wavy lines on the border of her "Mulholland" China pattern, and the diagonal bleached out stripes on a pair of wedgewood blue trousers. 
"If it was just a graphic stripe, it wouldn't have soul," she explains. "This way, it looks hand-done, even if it's not."
For now, she's happy to go back and forth, working for an hour here on a residential design project for a client in Kuwait (she showed me the plan for the kids' library -- yes, you read that right), and an hour there choosing the right cord belt for her spring collection.  Because as she said, "I've been wanting to do this for a long time."

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