Empress Glow

Empress Glow is the closing piece of Roheenaz’s formal chiffon collection and its most luminously toned — an off white embroidered and sequinned chiffon dress where the sequins work differently than in any other colourway in the range: against an off white ground, the sequins read as an extension of the fabric’s own brightness rather than as a contrasting embellishment, giving Empress Glow a glow quality that is both the source of its name and the reason it is the collection’s most photographically impactful piece. The fully embroidered sequinned chiffon shirt with silk sleeves border carries a silk neckline and hand-embellished neckline buttons, while the silk finishing lace and organza trouser lace at the hemline complete the lower edges in the same split-material arrangement used by Imperial Grace and Blush Whisper — silk at the hemline, organza at the trouser, a layering that gives the closing edges their own material depth. Empress Glow is also the only piece in the collection to carry no samosa lace finishing, making it the most purely embroidered-and-sequinned statement in the range: nothing competes with the chiffon’s own luminosity at the hemline, and the silk finishing lace alone is the conclusion.