Fashion is having a bit of an analogue moment. As more of the industry looks back to traditional techniques, physical making and the imperfections of the handmade, Loewe’s new seasonal collabortion feels particularly well timed. The house turned to Disney’s Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, a film whose entire visual world was painstakingly built by hand, one frame at a time.
First released in 1993, the cult classic was created using stop-motion animation, articulated puppets and handcrafted miniature sets. That commitment to the handrawn is what makes the collaboration such a natural fit for a house like Loewe with 180 years of craftsmanship behind it. With special access to the film’s archives, including original sketches and puppets of Jack Skellington, Sally and Zero, Loewe has translated the film’s distinctive visual language into a collection spanning bags, accessories, ready-to-wear, fragrance and leather goods.
The characters and scenes appear across leather marquetry, embroidery, prints and enamel, with unexpected constructions and material combinations giving the collection a distinctly Loewe interpretation of Burton’s wonderfully strange universe. The result i...