New Zealand-born sustainable fashion brand Marle has just dropped its resort collection, Face The Tide, and we’re in love.
In this new resort collection, Creative Director Juliet Souter explores both softness and strength with an edit of contrasting textures, asymmetric design and sharp structural forms.
“Face the Tide is about softness with strength and exploring this contrast through textures, silhouettes and, naturally, fabrication” she tells POPSUGAR Australia.
“Living by the beach in Mount Maunganui, and the more relaxed lifestyle that inherently comes with that, is reflected in the resort collection. Like all Marle collections, resort is about day to day luxury for women of any age at any stage of their life.”
The collection lends itself to many occasions—accessible but refined—and is made up of signature pieces in new colourways, as well as the introduction of modern silhouettes suited to the summer and beyond.
Sandwashed silk elegantly weaves its way throughout the collection, adding a touch of decadence to minimalistic styles such as the Mia Dress ($480) and Elisa Dress ($390). An injection of soft and joyful hues such as Citron, Praline and Espresso feature across free-flowing styles that flatter the female form.
“I always look for fibres that will age gracefully; fibres that make our garments relevant for many, many seasons ahead,” Juliet said.
“For this collection, I chose fabrics and yarns that hold that timeless attribute and also evoke a feeling of summer but weren’t constrained to the warmer months.
“Made up of luxurious natural fabrics like linen, supima cotton, GOTS certified cotton yarn, merino and sandwashed silk, they lend themselves to our premise of everyday luxury.”
Guided by the notion that beautiful wares shouldn’t cost the earth, Marle is crafted exclusively from certified natural fibres. Every garment that Marle makes is done so with intention and commitment, which results in an honest collection of timeless wares that honour the raw integrity of natural fibres.
“What comes from the earth, returns to it. We intend to leave our planet better than when we found it; however we are realistic about our impact on the environment.
“We view sustainability as a journey and we are always researching, educating ourselves, making changes for the better. A big focus for me was our packaging, I had always wanted to eradicate single or multiple use plastic from the business.”
Juliet tells us that they worked hard on creating the TUV certified compostable bag, something they can proudly say breaks down over a number of weeks. This, along with ensuring Marle’s care labels are cotton and all of its direct to customer packaging and packaging to stockists is either 100 per cent compostable or made using recycled cardboard having now been in play for a few years, ensures that the processes are as sustainable as possible, not just with the clothing itself, but all of the little things too.
“That being said, although our efforts are something to be proud of, it’s not something we feel the need to shout from the rooftops, it’s simply part of who we are,” she adds.
Marle is one of those stand out brands that continuously prove that a sustainable ethos truly elevates the quality of fashion but also it’s story, which makes its pieces a true pleasure to wear.
We want fashion to inspire us and empower us. We want to wear the clothes, we don’t want the clothes to wear us. We want to feel something when we put on the clothes we choose.
“Marle is about quietly empowering its wearer to feel confident, effortless and put together,” Juliet said.
“I hope people feel at home in these pieces, I hope they feel themselves.”
You can shop Marle’s new resort collection Face The Tide online now. Visit its website here.
