DESAPARECER

This collection plays with the idea of disappearances in all its forms. Exploring the feeling of getting away from everything, to a place of freedom. In thinking of freedom, I often consider escaping my body–in ecstasy, fleeting, and temporary. And even in death, one's final disappearing act, we all live on peacefully in a milky, soft place of the minds of those left behind. I imagine when one finally disappears, it is heaven-like, a dreamy picnic. I want to tap into this escapism as often as possible.

Creative Direction + Production: Courtney Bagtazo • Photography: Richie Ramirez Jr • Wardrobe: Natasha Bock • Glam + Assistant: Raton Rose

Bagtazo SS24 - Desaparecer. Sadie Bow in black nylon satin, crisp, graphic tie-down oversized bow with barrette. Black ostrich Fainting Circlet, headband with black ribbon ties. Can be worn as a headband, crown, wreath or collar.

The Pop Bow - a limited edition, stacked statement bow, in pearly white taffeta, hand gathered and fastened to a French barrette. To be worn at atop the head like a hat.

The Dressing Bow - a limited edition, oversized tail-down style bow in petal dust pink satin, hand gathered and fastened with a French barrette. Worn atop of the head, or at the base of a ponytail, the tails and bow have silky movement that feels so luxe!

Handmade In Bagtazo’s studio with fabric sourced from factory waste materials, which would otherwise reach landfills.

The Pop Bow - a limited edition, stacked statement bow, in pearly white taffeta, hand gathered and fastened to a French barrette. To be worn at atop the head like a hat.

Handmade In Bagtazo’s studio with fabric sourced from factory waste materials, which would otherwise reach landfills.

Sadie Bow - A limited edition, tails-down style bow, in black nylon satin, hand gathered and fastened to a French barrette. Worn atop of the head, or at the base of a ponytail, the crisp satin tails and bow hold their shape for a sharp look.

La Lune Ferronnière - A grosgrain headband in magnolia cream, with baroque pearls and mirrored glass beads. A nod to the flapper, this piece is to be worn across the forehead.

Handmade In Bagtazo’s studio with fabric sourced from factory waste materials, which would otherwise reach landfills.

Sadie Bow - A limited edition, tails-down style bow, in black nylon satin, hand gathered and fastened to a French barrette. Worn atop of the head, or at the base of a ponytail, the crisp satin tails and bow hold their shape for a sharp look. La Lu

Fainting Circlet - A peony pink feather circlet, finished with black grosgrain ribbon ties. This piece can be styled as a headband, coronet, or collar. (It’s super warm as a collar)!

Fainting Barrettes - A pair of Ivory feather barrettes. Channel your inner swan and let feathers ruffle In the wind. Sold as a set of two.

Handmade In Bagtazo’s studio in limited quantities.

Fainting Circlet - A peony pink feather circlet, finished with black grosgrain ribbon ties. This piece can be styled as a headband, coronet, or collar. (It’s super warm as a collar)!

Fainting Barrettes - A pair of Ivory feather barrettes. Channel your inner swan and let feathers ruffle In the wind. Sold as a set of two.

Handmade In Bagtazo’s studio in limited quantities.

WAKE THE GARDEN

This collection aims to capture the feelings at the early stages of spring. A time when potential is sprouting, when things are reaching. Bulbs pushing through snow, herbs growing through cracks in the sidewalk, vines finally greening, buds appearing, but just barely.

Like Persephone coming back from the underworld, as we slowly rise from the ashes of the pandemic, we can tap into our potential, revisit our best parts, to peak.

Personally, I’ve felt like I’ve been in a slumber for quite a while – I’m grieving nearly a dozen friends and loved ones lost to the opioid crisis, and it just keeps getting worse. My heart aches, but the only thing I know how to do with my frustration is to act; so I present you my work, a place I can go to move through grief and pain.

Creative Direction + Production: Courtney Bagtazo • Photography: Richie Ramirez Jr • Wardrobe: Natasha Bock • Glam + Assistant: Raton Rose

Jeaunie Cassanova for Bagtazo

THE RABBIT HOLE

What’s it like to fall? Can we land in the new place without despair? Is it fear that makes us so uncomfortable when we’re confronted with new realities? In a post-pandemic world where almost everything feels new, having realized so much over the last few years, how do we stabilize ourselves and lean into the discomfort of this new space? This is a time to clean house, to decide what should stay, and what just has got to go.

As we renegotiate our own realities, we can be both unsettled and empowered. In this collection, I focused on the empowering side – trying to reckon with what has been lost by paying attention to what has grown in its place. Bagtazo will no longer let made up rules dictate how this company is run, what colors to put out when, which styles and shapes are best. It’s time to go down the rabbit hole into ones own taste and needs.

Creative Direction + Production: Courtney Bagtazo • Photography: Richie Ramirez Jr • Wardrobe: Natasha Bock • Glam + Assistant: Raton Rose

HALCYON DAYS

‘Halcyon Days’ refers to a period of idyllic peace and happiness. This collection is intended to evoke pleasure, warmth, and comfort. In this world, we experience our immediate surroundings as if they are mental images–hazy and glittering–similar to how we recall the past.

Vignettes of being caught mid-play, taking a warm pause; faint laughter in the distance, happiness within reach.

Halcyon Days are like good memories that omit the unpleasant parts of life. How we allow ourselves to feel content despite life’s pains. Here we indulge in familiar sensations without sentimentality.

Creative Direction: Courtney Bagtazo • Photography + Production: Richie Ramirez Jr • Wardrobe: Caitlin Boelke

Matheus Lamont for Bagtazo

PLACELESSNESS

What is home? Can home still exist if it’s just a memory? As cities and towns rapidly change, I hardly recognize the few places I call home. Without having access to the spaces I’ve previously lived in, how do I go home?

From the collective sense of grief we all share as we navigate a global health crisis, climate crisis and inequality, I stripped myself of my identity as it relates to places–where I’m from, where I’ve lived, where I believe I belong. A feeling of exile exists within me when I return to my native Los Angeles and my long-time home of San Francisco, and I know many others share my longing for home. I worked from this grief to create my FW21 collection, Placelessness.

Creative Direction: Courtney Bagtazo • Photography + Production: Richie Ramirez Jr • Wardrobe: Caitlin Boelke

JACQUERIE

“Jacquerie” refers to a community uprising in France. The energy I experienced in New York during the spring and summer of 2020 when I was designing this collection felt like a community uprising. Finally! I used to feel like the downer at the party, always bringing up injustices others seemed to ignore or not care about, but finally, the entire community agreed enough was enough. This collection is about taking what you have and working with it to thrive. It is about subverting oppression and the status quo. it’s about smashing the patriarchy and burning the system down. Every piece in this collection was made with this sentiment in mind. When you wear pieces from Jacquerie, may you wear them with a sense of resistance, now and forever, amen.

Creative Direction: Courtney Bagtazo • Photography + Production: Richie Ramirez Jr • Wardrobe: Caitlin Boelke

Matheus Lamont for Bagtazo

ANODYNE

This collection was designed at a time of contradiction and confusion. It was as if America’s polarity imploded… suddenly words started to have multiple meanings…

The public world hardly made sense, so I felt that I needed to make sense of the chaos, and decided to do it by breaking ‘rules’.

Anodyne proposes we wear bright colors & pastels in Autumn and Winter, that we wear night hats, Bagtazo’s newest family of mostly brimless pillbox millinery blocks, and that we accessorize with gloves no matter the weather! I wish to restore order in this chaos through classic dress, but with a modern perspective.

The word ‘anodyne’ is both an adjective and a noun, and each use has a different meaning. In the same way, Bagtazo’s Anodyne is taking things and giving them alternative meaningings. Hats are just for sun. Gloves aren’t just for the cold Accessories aren’t an afterthought.

Creative Direction: Courtney Bagtazo • Photography + Production: Richie Ramirez Jr • Wardrobe: Caitlin Boelke