At The Royal Geographical Society, Emilia Wickstead and Julia Sarr-Jamois Hosted an Elegant Dinner Occasion with Vogue100

Over the previous 16 years, Emilia Wickstead, born in New Zealand, has constructed the quintessentially British model. Catherine, Princess of Wales, ranks among the many label’s famed devotees and reportedly owns the identical gown in 4 colours  Lily James, Emily Blunt, Emilia Clarke, and plenty of different English roses blossom in Wickstead’s designs.

Sunday evening, only a few hours after her spring 2025 assortment debuted, Wickstead hosted an intimate dinner on the Royal Geological Society with Vogue100. The stately room was reworked from the present venue earlier within the day for the after-hours affair. A five-piece band, outfitted in double-breasted white coats, performed on the mezzanine overlooking the historic corridor. The darkish wooden paneling contrasted the mountains of lilies and orchids that adorned the house. British Vogue’s Julia Sarr-Jamois, resplendent in a inexperienced robe from Wickstead’s final runway, served because the fabulous co-host for the decadent ceremonial dinner.

Wickstead cited photographer Gisèle Freund because the inspiration for the gathering. Freund, who died in 2000 on the age of 91,  photographed, socialized, and befriended lots of the twentieth century’s cultural titans, together with James Joyce, Collette, and Virginia Woolf.  Freund was an earlier adopter of coloration and her palette —smoke grey, turquoise, rose—might be detected in Wickstead’s garments.