Erica Benton, alone in her apartment. T-shirt. Underwear. Tchaikovsky on the stereo.
Our autumn collection draws its mood from the opening scene of An Unmarried Woman, in which a woman is seen dancing around her Manhattan apartment, unabashed and wholly in her body.
As the original promotional poster read:
"She laughs, she cries, she feels angry, she feels lonely, she feels guilty, she makes breakfast, she makes love, she makes do, she is strong, she is weak, she is brave, she is scared, she is... an unmarried woman."
By the end of the film, Erica has a man who wants to take care of her. Saul asks her to spend the summer with him in Vermont — five months, his house, his children, his life folded around hers. She says no. Not because she doesn't want him, but because she isn't finished with what she's in the middle of.
The story doesn't resolve her. No wedding, no reunion, no one walking her home. It ends with Erica on a sidewalk, alone, carrying one of Saul's paintings because she offered to help him load his car. That's the whole ending. A woman, still in the middle of her own life, doing someone a favor on her way to wherever she feels like.
Charlotte, our stand-in for Erica, isn't dressed for anyone in these photographs.
Nothing here is posed toward a door that might open. The collection is what she happened to be wearing while she was still in the middle of it all. Whatever it was.
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