Ramsay-Levi imagined the 2019 Chloé woman immersed into the Scottish Highlands. Photograph: WWD/REX/Shutterstock.

I have a vicarious affection for Scotland nurtured by family genealogy. Coupled with a weakness for spirited fashion talk, it leads me to share the following:

[Natacha Ramsay-Levi, Chloé’s creative director] joins many other European designers this season, including Riccardo Tisci at Burberry and Maria Grazia Chiuri at Dior, in looking to icons of British culture for inspiration for her autumn/winter 2019 outing. “I started this collection by putting her on a landscape, grounded in the Highlands with kilts, Prince of Wales checks and outdoor clothes to protect [her] from the storm,” Ramsay-Levi said of the woman she had in mind for this collection. It accounted for the enveloping ribbed knits, capes and drawstring anoraks for outerwear, and all manner of prints, which included a “Highlands Toile de Jouy”. Her square-toe leather boots, meanwhile – complete with a practical chunky heel – incorporated a stretchy sock.

(Scarlett Conlon, “Chloé gives Highlands twist to its traditional Parisian chic,” The Guardian, 2-29-10)

(c) 2019 JMN.