Lizzie Owens’s resort moodboard at 6397 featured a range of paparazzi images of Laura Dern—specifically the actor in the early aughts with her then-partner Ben Harper and their young children. Even more specifically: out and about in Utah at the Sundance Film Festivals of those years. “You know, my neck of the woods!” said Owens during a preview.

What to make of Dern’s look back then? It was a lo-fi mish-mash of her Hollywood bona fides and a laidback indie spirit. Dern wore clothes that looked personal and lived-in; this was the pre-stylist era before the runway-to-pap-shot pipeline completely changed celebrity style and became its own mini industry. To Owens’s credit, unlike many designers putting celebrities on their moodboards, she did not set out to replicate Dern’s look. Rather, she

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