From the classroom to the countryside, Aknvas’ schoolgirl princess slipped back into her Stuart Weitzman wader boots from spring to muck around in the hay for resort.

Designer Christian Juul Nielsen was inspired by summertime vacations at his grandfather’s farm in northern Denmark. Memories of whiling away the days riding horses, feeding chickens and weeding beets became “muses,” as he put it during a showroom walkthrough, and still stir feelings of childlike wonderment. It showed in this energetic lineup, a bit like if Marie Antoinette joined Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie on “The Simple Life.”

Channeling his 6-year-old self, Nielsen imagined the farm as his stage. “When you’re dressing up as a kid, there’s not always a reason why you’re doing what you’re doing,” he explained, “it’s mor

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