Inside Harris Tapper’s intimate FW26 dinner with “Good Witch”

30 July 2026

By Sophie de Renzy

Harris Tapper marked its FW26 launch with an intimate Sydney dinner, joining forces with author Lucianne Tonti to toast her latest book, "Good Witch."

Candlelight, good wine and easy conversation filled the room at Harris Tapper‘s intimate Fall Winter 2026 dinner, held at Sydney’s Clarence and V. Hosted alongside author Lucianne Tonti to mark the release of “Good Witch,” the evening also celebrated the new season, bringing together designers Sarah Harris Gould and Lauren Tapper with editors, creatives and friends of the brand.

The collection itself is Harris Tapper’s heaviest, moodiest range yet. Padded, cocooned outerwear wraps around the body, while soft silk satins and sheer tulles sit just beneath. It’s a wardrobe that plays both sides, structured one moment, undone the next.

At the centre of it all is a single motif. An Angel’s Trumpet, hand drawn by co-founder Lauren Tapper, blooms across the pieces, hand beaded onto splash resistant technical fabrics (we’re sold) and scattered like fallen petals across sheer silk. Materials like ostrich feather, cashmere and embroidered taffeta add another layer to the collection.

The decision to pair the launch with “Good Witch,” Lucianne Tonti’s exploration of the witch hunts that swept Europe and America centuries ago and the legacy they’ve left on feminine power, was never just an aesthetic one. Both circle the same idea, that femininity has always been treated as something to fear and something to punish. “This partnership was rooted in a deep respect for Lucianne and the body of work she’s built,” say Harris Gould and Tapper. “It felt less like a brand collaboration and more like a natural conversation between two bodies of work already speaking the same language.”

Lucianne feels the alignment just as strongly, tracing it back to the brand’s foundations. “Harris Tapper is run on the strength of the relationship of its female founders,” she says. “Women’s collective creativity and collaboration is at the centre of the activities historically targeted as witchcraft.” She points to the word “glamour” itself, once used to describe a spell cast over the eye, now used to describe exactly the kind of clothes Harris Tapper makes. “There is something inherently witchy about that.”