HORSES ATE LIER

Claudia Dey (middle) and Heidi Sopinka (left) named Horses Atelier after Patti Smith’s iconic album, but, Dey says, “we love every association: velocity, beauty, wildness, utility.” Since their 2012 launch, the duo’s artfully easy, breezy collections have found favour with the chic set: The Man Repeller is a fan, and Georgia May Jagger and Jerry Hall recently bought the same sundress. (Watch for the brand’s ultracovetable bomber on Girls’ Jessa next season.) “We love the Parisian

notion that you dress to a body type, not to a trend,” says Sopinka, citing Japanese classicism, Russian folklore and hip hop as fall/winter 2014 influences. Every piece is manufactured a few blocks from their studio in Toronto’s West End, a neighbourhood that inspires poetic fervour in the designers. “Heidi’s husband harvests walnuts and makes ink, and my husband has a garden on the roof,” says Dey. “Toronto allows for that kind of magic.”