Judith Milgrom’s Maje woman is a full-on party girl this season, trading the luxe relaxation of spring’s Slim Aarons holiday for an all-nighter at Le Palace. As such her minidresses are doused in paillettes and velvet, her T-shirts are fused with silk leopard-print skirts, and her coats are super warm and snuggly, only to be cast off for an evening of dancing. Milgrom, too young for Le Palace’s halcyon days, admits to her fair share of ’90s romps at Les Bains-Douches; “Bien sûr!” she cheered.
That’s why this party animal is transcending decades with her wardrobe, yearning for the bourgeois character of the ’70s and the haute vamps of the ’80s, even if she herself is more a part of the supersize tartans of the ’90s. All together Milgrom’s epoch-flattening collection of herringbone suits, bias-ruched golden minis, and ditsy florals works nicely together in 2020. Blame it on her careful modernity; instead of dresses she’s made rompers—better for dancing!—and she’s pairing a smart suit with a high falutin sequin turtleneck. In French, Milgrom explained, “There is a lot of eveningwear, but I imagined women wearing it during the day.” With the Maje customer always party-ready—even if the “party” in question is just a selfie shoot for social media—Milgrom’s instincts to blur the lines of time and of occasion are totally right.