The attitudes of youth - its obsessions through clothes. The catalyst is Tír na nÓg, the otherworld of Irish myth and legend - a land of eternal youth, immortality.
The show opens with a white pony — myth transformed into lace, embroidered, recycled, carrying echoes of past collections. The collection chases her tail: rose tapestries and tweeds hint at 1920s and 1940s silhouettes, yet garments fracture and drift across eras; lingerie surfaces, bomber collars gesture, fabrics tumble and dismount, caught between restraint and abandon.
Pony Kids by Perry Ogden merges old and new, Dublin youth with horses spilling into the present, inspiring a collection that flows between menswear and womenswear, sportswear and ceremony, extremes colliding, while the Simone Rocha × adidas Originals partnership bends archetypes: track tops brush against tulle, leotards tear through lace, hybrid pieces migrating seamlessly.
Bareback equestrianism leaves its trace — rips, rosettes, hardware, each mark ornamental. An imagined Tír na nÓg, painted by Jack Butler Yeats, and the Yeats sisters, Elizabeth Yeats and Lily Yeats, Joyce’s “weird sisters,” close the circle: woman, nature, and craft entwined. Riding gestures — ribbons, bows, hardware — rewrite history. Evening gowns bloom into rosettes, crinolines orbit, satin laces unravel, pulsing with energy. They push, they recoil; every piece alive, every piece hungry, every piece insistent.
