Bernadette is all about placing its greatest foot ahead.
Beginning Saturday, the Antwerp-based label identified for smooth but luxurious silk clothes will supply footwear to match.
It’s an extension that got here naturally as mother-daughter design duo Bernadette and Charlotte de Geyter started interested by staging their first present for the autumn 2025 assortment. “You begin to assume rather more in regards to the equipment, the total look and the entire story,” Charlotte de Geyter instructed WWD.
To match the season’s boudoir-inspired snapshot of a girl taking a second for herself, the duo distilled lingerie notes throughout low-heeled and flat designs, provided in comfortable pastel satins in tones of pink, yellow or inexperienced. Minute bows and flowers are used as adornment, whereas different variations function embroideries, which de Geyter deemed “one other method of displaying prints.”
Bernadette’s new shoe line
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Elongated smooth shapes gently taper ahead, and de Geyter described them as “very trendy” and meant to elongate the foot.
It’s additionally what matches the Bernadette fashion vernacular. “We now have quite a lot of clothes which can be very lengthy and really voluminous,” Charlotte de Geyter stated. “So we like that the little tip peeps out from beneath the gown, and it’s a bit of good element.”
The mother-daughter duo intend for his or her footwear to transition from boardroom to ballroom — and to get from one to the opposite. The footwear function a 4.5cm heel and there’s a flat possibility, too.
“The Bernadette lady all the time likes to be comfy, she likes pockets in her garments, she needs a low heel or perhaps a flat in order that she will stroll a couple of kilometers,” she continued. “We’re from Antwerp, so we stroll quite a bit.”
However their reflection was as a lot about what would match with the autumn season because it was about becoming footwear into the model’s six-year narrative. To that finish, they are going to be introducing a classics line, which can span silk satin and leather-based variations.
“For every assortment, we could have the satins come again within the colours of that season,” de Geyer stated. “And [alongside] that, we’ll proceed to work on the shapes and develop little alterations that match the most recent collections.”
This step-by-step strategy is one the de Geyters have utilized since launching the model in 2018. They’ve expanded into residence and bridal, and likewise added objects like a raffia bag this summer season — launched after shoppers noticed the youthful de Geyter pair one she purchased on a market along with her Bernadette seems to be.
Their technique served them effectively: In 2024, the model stated wholesale accounted for round 70 % of the enterprise with 94 doorways globally akin to Le Bon Marché, whereas its personal e-commerce can be rising strongly, doubling year-on-year.
Bernadette’s new shoe line
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Whereas the corporate doesn’t disclose gross sales figures, de Geyter stated regular development had continued and the main focus now was “making the model extra 360.”
Made in Italy, the inaugural footwear lineup will probably be obtainable solely on the Bernadette e-commerce website. It’s priced between 690 euros for the classics in silk satin and leathers, and as much as 990 euros for the embroidered silk satin heels. Patent leather-based flats with lingerie particulars retail for 790 euros.
