PAINT IN PATTERN AND PRINT

Trend reports are heading toward all things horses, and well, that’s right in our wheelhouse.

“I was already invested in designing the Wild Horses collection before I read that horse motifs might be headed to mainstream fashion,” Cheryl said. “So that lit a whole different spark in me. How can I diversify? How can I think outside the box, beyond the images of horses and horseshoes? I’ve long loved animal-inspired prints and patterns, and so I thought, ‘Let’s adapt the aesthetic of a paint pony.’ Which we ended up loosely interpreting into a print and also incorporating it into accent patches of hair-on hide.”

The print is a Western spin on a classic cheetah print, morphing more towards the markings of a paint pony, particularly (if we’re getting technical with it) that of an Overo Paint, characterized by sharp, irregular markings with a horizontal orientation. It’s simultaneously bold and neutral, timeless and seasonless, and it’s the perfect punctuation to a collection channeling ‘western and wild’.