Collaborations between designer labels and major commercial brands may be cute, but tend to skew a bit kitsch. That seems especially true when it comes to Disney apparel (consider Marc by Marc Jacobs’ Alice and Wonderland-inspired collection I Am Not Like Other Girls or Markus Lupfur’s 2016 sparkly graphic Bambi sweatshirt collection).
So when we heard that New York-based label Rag & Bone was teaming up with Disney for the December release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, we were biting our nails to say the least. Was there really a way for Marcus Wainwright to pull off R2D2-themed streetwear that didn’t scream “13-year-old fanboy”?
Um, yes.
Not only did Wainwright pull it off—the pieces are downright covetable. The special capsule collection, which will be available starting December 1 at Rag & Bone (including the Georgetown location) is tasteful, of-the-moment, and just the perfect touch of nerdy. The Force was definitely with Wainwright here.
Pieces range in price from $95 to $1,295 and vary from fine leather goods in colors like “Vader” and “Skywalker,” to edgy laced-up pants and jackets, and Stormtrooper-inspired sweatshirts.
“Our approach was really to re-imagine some of our favorite Rag & Bone pieces while taking influence from some of our most memorable moments of past and present Star Wars films,” says Wainwright in a press release. “We wanted the pieces to feel like something that referenced Star Wars but that also fitted the Rag & Bone aesthetic—like a modern Jedi.”
And who wouldn’t want to channel Rey (or Leia!) in some mod white square-toed booties? Or cozy into a white puffer jacket with side-lacing in “Hoth” white? And for the truly dedicated nerds, yes, there are also several graphic t-shirts.
Take a look at some of our favorites below.
Echo Jacket in Hoth
The “Echo Jacket” in Hoth.
The “Echo” jacket and pant in Hoth, and the “Ellis Force” bootie in Rebellion.
The “Obi-Wan” hoodie in Tatooine.
The “Ellis Force” boot in Empire.
The “Ellis Force” boot in Rebellion.
The “Hope” sweater in Galactic (above) and Moon (below).
“Powerful” tee in white.
Above: the “Lightspeed” jacket and pant in Yavin. Below: The “RB1 Force” in Jedi.
The “X-wing” tee in Black & Lights.
The “Stormtrooper” sweatshirt in black.
The zip-around wallet in Vader.
A cardcase in Skywalker.
The wristlet zip pouch in Skywalker.
Rag & Bone. 3061 M Street NW; 202 836 9864.
Hayley is an Associate Editor at Washingtonian Weddings. Previously she was the the Style Editor at The Local Palate, a Southern food culture magazine based out of Charleston, South Carolina. You can follow her on instagram @wandertaste.
