British equestrian and tailoring which took shape in checked tweeds and boasted blown-up elongated sleeves with nipped, fitted torsos. She tapped the Eighteenth Century English painter, George Stubbs, specifically his Horse frightened by a Lion which she turned into a print on silk dresses and knitted sweaters. It was beautifully executed. A conical bra shape was worked into tailored jackets and sweaters, but that seduction was tempered by her minimal utilitarian palette of honey, sand, biscuit, grey and khaki, and the addition of her other signature styles; tomboy jumpsuits and parkas. It was everything customers go to Stella for.
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