The new sleepwear collection for Autumn 2020 champions Liberty’s Gothic revival movement of the late 1960s, drawing from a wide array of baroque, ornate and proudly eccentric designs within the Liberty archive. Our in-house designers transformed vintage artworks into richly detailed modern reimaginings – inspired by the sinuous art-inflected maximalism of Bernard Nevill, Liberty’s design director of the ‘60s and ‘70s.
The Liberty design studio were inspired by an original 1930s publication called ‘She Bought A Liberty Scarf’. Created to depict the myriad fashion uses of a Liberty scarf, from strolling moonlit castle grounds to sunbathing and golfing, Joyce Dennys’ charming illustrations have been reimagined and redrawn into fresh contemporary layouts.
Aurora is an original botanical print designed in the Liberty studio, inspired by the beauty of imperfection found in hand-painted archival artworks. The gridded layout references the intricate colour-building stages of traditional screen-printing methods, where mirrors would be used to reflect one corner of a design into a full square artwork. Carla and Dana are both derived from the original Aurora painting.
Talitha is a modern fusion of beautiful ‘70s-style florals, inspired by original elements dating as far back as the 1910s. Liberty’s studio designers bound these designs together with trailing Ophelia florals into a contemporary, free-spirited layout.
Originally created in 1897, Alicia is a striking Art Nouveau pattern from the Liberty archive. It features an abundance of trailing lotus flowers and swirling foliage – design motifs popularised by Liberty during the ‘70s Gothic revival.
Seraphina is a dreamy and unusual Liberty paisley landscape, originally created during the 1910s. Reimagined and redrawn in the Liberty studio, this romantic print depicts a water fountain cascading with feathery garlands, intricate paisley details and rose bouquets.
The Liberty Logo print is a witty layout of graphic hand-painted lozenges that tells a story through 140 years of typographic history. The pyjama set’s contrasting cuffs are printed with Betsy, a classic and much-loved Liberty floral that has adorned Liberty designs ever since its creation in 1933.