Brock Collection/H&M
If there were such thing as “easing back into normal life post-pandemic” couture, Brock Collection might have unearthed it. The LA-based luxury women's brand, known for its breezy designs that blend effortlessness with an edge and make opulence unpretentious, is teaming up with H&M for a new womenswear collection, launching in the U.S. on June 24.
Anticipating that a return to the days of dressing up might be a painful process after more than a year in quarantine, designers Laura Vassar and Kristopher Brock curated pieces that could pull double duty, transferring from couch to city streets without the need for a dressing room. The result is a romantic, unobtrusive set, tailor-made for H&M's mass-market approach to fashion. Combining vintage-inspired florals with bright blue denim and chunky gold jewelry, none of the 33 pieces in the collection balk in the face of convention, nor do they intimidate—for those first wary steps back to Sunday morning bunches in an actual restaurant, they're about as ideal as it gets.