"Building upon the amazing designs and sketches that we’ve pulled from this house’s rich archives, my team and I have been focused on the strongest elements from this house’s couture designs from the late 1940s and early 1950s. Channeling Pierre Balmain’s architectural mastery of sculptural shapes and precision tailoring, with my team and I have paired our atelier’s sharp cuts with the soft curves of jackets and skirts transformed by crinoline."

"My team and I have pulled out all the stops, with the fragrant and feminine perennial seeming to show up everywhere, in multiple forms—from single-bud adornments to colorful prints filled with a gardens-worth of cabbage roses. Three-dimensional roses are crafted from a wide variety of materials, including patent leather, rubber, latex, porcelain and even recycled plastic bottles."

"But I’d like to try to avoid the easy assumption that a florals-for-spring offering that celebrates love, beauty and joy must, by definition, be superficial. Love is complex—every rose, after all, comes with its thorns. And we wholeheartedly embrace that complexity, with thorns showing up in multiple sizes and forms throughout this runway. I doubt that those who know me will be too surprised by that, since I’ve always loved to expand upon the fascinating tension caused by adjacent opposites—and that fondness for oppositions is particularly pronounced in our designs for next season."

"As the saying goes, you can complain about rose brushes having thorns or you can celebrate the fact that thorn bushes can produce roses. My team and I have chosen the latter."