Patrick McDowell Is Dressing the Woman With Somewhere to Be

For Spring 2027, dressmaker Patrick McDowell turns his attention to daytime — the stretch between morning obligations and evening ones that fills out an active social calendar. The collection draws its romance from the films of Wong Kar-wai and its posture from 1960s society dressing, the codes of a woman who is always presentable and always on schedule. McDowell describes himself as a dressmaker rather than a designer, and here he's imagining a client who is out and about all day, not one dressing for a single evening entrance. It's daywear built for a life with somewhere to be next.

With reporting from WWD.