Congratulations are in order: Meryll Rogge married her partner this past May in the same small fishing village, Cadaqués, where Salvador Dalí once lived (his house has been preserved as a museum), and where the designer’s family has a home. This joyous occasion inspired a very personal collection. “Usually you are like, ‘Okay, what are we going to do this season?’ And you have a moodboard, and you come across all these references.
But this season was the opposite for me,” Rogge explained. “It literally started from: ‘What do I want to wear? What do I want to put on?’ It was a very intuitive way of designing and very freeing in a way..
. to have this moment of guilty pleasure [where] I can design whatever I want because I have nobody watching me or no frame of reference.” What does a fashion designer wear to her own wedding? Rogge figured there were three options: go with something vintage, ask a colleague to make something, or do it herself.
Not surprisingly she settled on the last option and went all in, creating four distinct dresses for herself; all of them made it into the collection, and became the starting point for the rest of the offering. The most casual of the quartet, (look 4) was a patchworked denim jacket and full skirt made, the designer explained, of “upcycled Levi’s 501s—like the 1980s kind that doesn’t stretch and that really survived through time,” which referenced a 1969 wedding dress made by Yves Saint Laurent for Gersende de.
