Petra Collins may have dubbed her dream-like brand ‘I’m Sorry,’ but the conceptual art and fashion label is fiendishly unapologetic, and its latest collaboration with accessories brand D’heygere, founded by the Belgian born designer, Stephanie D’heygere, is so wistful, so explorative, so girlhood. V are obsessed.

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 For D’heygere, fashion is playful. For Petra it’s powerful. For both, it’s a form of self-expression as much as it is exploration (of the self, that is). The collection, an eclectic mix of life-like jewelry pieces, is inspired by the themes of girlhood — exploring the teenaged past in the much more seasoned present. Petra’s childhood was marked with discovery.

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When the Canadian photographer, director, and visual artist discovered art, she simultaneously unearthed a roadmap to the future. Her bedroom, a sort of shrine to her ambitions, was filled with photographs, posters, and collected ephemera, and the space became an emblem of eternal girlhood — one that, years later, emerges in the form of images, films, and her dream-like fashion brand, I’m Sorry.

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A diary necklace, nail earrings (black for the dark and pink for the delicate), and a candle heart ring are some of the standouts, nods to surrealist femininity in the form of humorous trinkets and totems. Heart-shaped band aids with smudges of jam-red blood are a heady little metaphor for the trials and tribulations of adolescent love.

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The Cookie earrings —  a pair of biscuits overrun by a swarm of  glossy ants — is pulled directly from Collins’s childhood phobia. “When I was little in Hungary, my grandmother told me never to leave crisps or cookies open, but of course I did,” she recalls. “I was always a bad sleeper, so I would wake up early, go downstairs and start eating these biscuits – then I would look down and see hundreds of ants all over them. That’s part of the inspiration for the cookie earrings. It’s very ‘I’m Sorry’.” 

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The collection is now available at ssense.com & dheygere.com.