Oh, Maje, I’m sorry to have snafued this review. Its way-too-lateness is entirely down to me. Yes, it’s true, you showed these clothes on October 1 on a Paris Fashion Week day when we were all rushing madly to file reviews due to go live, and you didn’t send your images (originally advertised for November) until shortly before the Christmas holiday. That gap was the crack through which this review slipped, but the keyboard-calloused fingers from which it slipped were mine.
So, thinking back . . . The collection was shown at Maje’s new headquarters, a lovely space most recently a bank but originally a department of the Louvre. Judith Milgrom was not at the presentation. However, a friendly rep from her New York agency said that she had been inspired by the new office space and was seeing Paris through a tropical prism flavored by her Moroccan roots: a lot of yellows, a lot of florals, a Paris scene shirt print used on sports shorts inspired by activewear. A check mac, a wrap stripe-sectioned mixed cotton dress, a belted rose-print playsuit, a silver wide-hooded jacket, and the chic sunglasses range that will be released across Maje’s 100-ish outlets all stick in the memory, as do earrings featuring a below-lobe crescent of bearing-tipped prong-lets that brought to mind the earrings Casey Cadwallader has shown for three seasons at Mugler.
This was a strong collection from a company whose HQ change signals its ongoing success: apologies, again.
