Yesterday saw Hillary Taymour in her element—and not only because the Collina Strada creative director brought some 400 onlookers upstate to Storm King Art Center for her spring 2027 runway show, capped with a special performance by Carly Rae Jepsen. The after-party saw Taymour reimagine her living room (complete with her very own sofa) on a grassy knoll beyond the catwalk, where guests arrived via golf cart to discover the label’s first home collection.

Developed in collaboration with the Swedish interiors brand Layered, the drop includes a low-slung modular sofa available in two patterns: one lifted from the floor of Collina Strada’s Chinatown boutique and painted by Taymour herself, the other taken directly from a plaid shown for fall 2026. There are also four rugs, available in four standard sizes or custom-cut, again drawn from Taymour’s playful house codes and color palettes.

“You have to commit, or else it doesn’t feel genuine,” she says.

The partnership, Layered’s first with a fashion brand, was born of precisely that sensibility. Sanna Fehrmann, the company’s CMO, cites the label’s spring 2025 show, aptly dubbed “Touch Grass” and held in a private park in the East Village, as something of an a-ha moment for herself and Layered founder Malin Glemme.

“Hillary challenges everything with her perspective,” says Fehrmann. “When Layered was founded 11 years ago, everything was white and beige, and Malin had this idea to go against the status quo and make rugs that were centerpieces—rugs that really made the space.”

It’s hard to compete with a sculpture park where eyes might linger on works by Ellsworth Kelly or Anicka Yi, but at the after-party, the sentiment was visibly appreciated: guests crowded together on the hand-tufted rugs, strewn about the lawn and suspended as tapestries, while enjoying Scandinavian-inspired light bites by the food artist Joon Eats, methodically arranged on gauzy fashion fabrics draped as tablecloths. (The comedian Charles Hsu, in gingham shorts and carrying a Coach bag, wondered out loud if the vegetarian menu might at some point soon include sliders.) Meanwhile, DJ Oscar Nñ of the Brooklyn-based nightlife collective Papi Juice spun Addison Rae.

This is all to say that the event had the vibe of a particularly chill house party—exactly as Taymour intended, though her description is slightly different. “I wanted it to look like a ’70s swingers cabin in the woods,” she says.

Taymour also drew inspiration from her own house upstate, where the look book was photographed, as much as the ad hoc garden of earthly delights she manifested. (The wide-wale cotton corduroy upholstery, it should be noted, is very forgiving when it comes to stains.) What it lacks in SKUs—the first collection is made up of just the rugs and the sofa—the collection makes up for in POV, building on the brand’s alternative approach to home, community, and coming together.

For Taymour, coming home and getting away from it all are now two sides of the same coin, as she begins renovations on the upstate property. She’s also taken up horseback riding at a stable just 15 minutes away, fitting in lessons on the weekends to decompress—assuming she allows herself a break. “My goal this year is to design sheets,” she says, with a laugh. There’s no rest for the weary.