While some designers create their resort collections for glamorous types who vacation in St. Barths or Aspen during the cold-weather months, Trish Westcoat Pound of TWP has a far more practical customer in mind: the one who has to regularly face the outside world and all its elements. “Rain, rain, go away,” she says as…
Alexandra O’Neill’s resort lineup for Markarian is a potpourri of options that fit whatever definition of “resort” her shopper may have. There’s her usual cocktail-ready holiday options, these trimmed with luscious velvets and finished in sparkling brocades, and her styles meant for true holi-days—meaning warm-weather appropriate “vacation pieces,” as she called them at a preview,…
Consistency? Cute in concept. But The Attico’s designers see it differently: as a velvet trap. Gilda Ambrosio and Giorgia Tordini prioritize evolution over expectation, freedom over formula. Change your mind, your mood, your look. Be whoever you want. No guilt—just reinvention, on your own terms. “We don’t believe in a one-note women, and we design…
Over the weekend, 14 masters students studying fashion at Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts presented their final-year collections via a series of installations and a runway show. For the uninitiated, the Royal Academy is one of the few major, major fashion schools, nurturing everyone from the famed Antwerp 6 (Dries Van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester,…
Looking through the clothes in the Diane Von Furstenberg resort collection, one word kept coming to mind: ease. Dresses and tops are made to simply pull on over the head; pants and skirts have elastic waists—zipper closures are few and far between. “What I think is really important about DVF is how it made women…
A softness blanketed the latest Kallmeyer collection, shown at the brand’s brightly sunlit new SoHo loft studio. “We call it romantic tailoring,” said Daniella Kallmeyer. “I was really drawn to these small elements and textures that felt like they were from another time, maybe, but brought into a modern context.” A slim maxi coat with…
Another New York store is on the way for Ulla Johnson, this one uptown on Madison Avenue. It’s been a long time coming for this native New Yorker; her Bleecker Street store opened in 2017 and LA followed in 2023, but slow and steady has always been the Ulla Johnson way. If you haven’t been…
Rebecca Hessel Cohen believes that during “resort,” the Loveshackfancy woman operates with the following schedule: first, she’s out and about attending holiday parties around town. Then, she’s hosting intimate dinners for her family at home, whether that’s in New York, Charleston, or wherever else Loveshakfancy has a store. Finally, it’s New Years, and she’s off…
Monique Lhuillier showed her upbeat, colorful spring collection on a gloriously sunny New York City afternoon this week. The designer, who is known for her bridal gowns and eveningwear, zeroed in on zingy dresses with a sense of refinement for both day and night this season. “I wanted to make it feel more modern, and…
Emilia Wickstead’s pre-fall lookbook opens with a model who has an unusually confrontational expression on her face: her slicked-back hair and buttoned-up coat dress treads the line between the ladylike and the tomboyish as her mouth opens to speak—or possibly even give you a harsh dressing down. “I like to think that my muse is…