LoRCA Studio Poplin is Pretty, Pretty Good

Does anyone else in this chatroom feel like poplin wasn’t even a fabric before last season when all of a sudden relatively contemporary designers such as Alexander Wang and Suno were offering up a robust selection of the cotton blend in the form of t-shirt gone perfectly right?

This sounds absurd considering the mere fact that Phoebe Philo has been playing with the fabric since she first stepped foot into the atelier that is Céline, whereas Consuelo Castiglioni and Jil Sander have potentially been doing it for an even longer period of time. I might even go so far as to speculate they were born swathed in the material.

Today, Rosie Assoulin is unofficially the poplin shirt dress whispererm and Ports 1961 has it out for some of the best white poplin silhouettes of the fall season — ditto for Prabal Gurung, Carven and The Row.

But on a quieter corner, at the intersection of practical luxury and mystery, resides the unassuming, newly launched LoRCA Studio with its highly edited selection of four shirt silhouettes meant to become the “timeless mainstays” that embody a woman’s closet. No doubt they will — particularly because in addition to their servings, which offer challis and viscose, there’s a delightful nod to, yes, poplin.

I test-drove the Unna style in blue last summer because there is no such thing as knowing too many rigid, cotton t-shirts and found this: in oppressive, July heat, the shirt is not so ideal. On a brisk October day that might or might not call for cloaking by way of blazer or cape: indubitably right. Perfect, even.

In partnership with LoRCA Studio