Ready-to-wear Spring–Summer 1966 by Gaby Aghion and studio for Chloé. Dress : " Tertulia" by Karl Lagerfeld

“Tertulia” – The Dress of Silent Flowers

In the serene stillness of a weightless world, she stands upright like an ancient idea, suspended in the purity of a modernist dream. Her dress is a manifesto: vertical stripes, red like unkept promises, white like proud silences. And then, at the hem and sleeves, geometric flowers — also red, but a red that has never bled. A red that’s been thought through, contained, almost conceptual. This is a dress that speaks of elegance as an art of restraint. A dress born of a time when fashion could still philosophize, smile softly, and offer mystery without unraveling it.

Karl Lagerfeld, still very young then, was sketching for Gaby Aghion with that light gravity only the daring know how to wield. He didn’t impose — he suggested: a luncheon of intellectual women on the terrace of a changing world. A tertulia, yes, like those Spanish gatherings where beauty, politics, and love are debated — without ever raising a voice.