Clerical Sensuality Vs. Agrarian Chic at Simone Rocha

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The Simone Rocha woman cannot be reduced to a simple seasonal sentiment. No, she’s far more complicated than that – and Rocha’s eponymous label continues to speak to her intricate, multifaceted nature. For Spring/Summer 2017, it was seeing Jackie Nickerson’s evocative photographs of African agricultural workers, pitched against 18th-Century Old Master paintings at Dublin’s National Gallery of Ireland that prompted the Ireland-born, London-based designer to charge her modern,…