Inside Kimberly Corday's Dollhouse
Fashion — 28.04.26
Kimberly Corday approaches fashion as an act of character-building, using imagined personas to shape the emotional and visual world of each collection.
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“I like to come up with characters who might wear what I’m working on,” she says, a process that allows her to more fully realize the universe around her clothes. Her work often centers on figures suspended between girlhood and womanhood, drawn to that sense of in-between.
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For her latest collection, Corday looks to Grey Gardens’ Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale as a guiding reference, channeling the icon’s mix of fantasy, delusion, and self-mythology. This tension carries into the clothes themselves, where her signature boudoir elements—hand-sewn girdles, bras, and garter belts—are offset by symbols of innocence. “I wanted to see what happens when that visual language is disrupted by symbols of naïveté,” she explains, pointing to details like baby bonnets and doll clothes. The result, she notes, “sits somewhere between coquettishness and innocence,” evading the clarity of either position.
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