Olivier Rousteing is still under 40. Yet he is also the third longest-standing non-founder creative director in ready-to-wear luxury fashion (after evergreen Véronique Nichanian at Hermès menswear and the mighty Ian Griffiths of Max Mara). So even as fashion cycles through its latest red wedding moment, Rousteing’s combination of veteran experience and youthful potential allows…
Morocco is woven into Giambattista Valli’s language “as an obsession,” he said. For resort, Marrakesh’s influence descended from the heights of last season’s couture, reinterpreted in a breezier, more laidback register. Think a palette of spicy reds and saffrons, and printed profusions of roses and bougainvilleas as if plucked straight from a garden. Steeped in…
Anna Sui gave her resort offering a name: Neo Romantic, and as always, it was well researched. She looked at an exhibition of the work of the fashion illustrator Christian Bérard in Monaco; “I like what his drawings evoke,” she said, pointing to the delicate, dreamy lines of his sketches on her moodboard. She studied…
PH5 is a young brand that’s continually building out its product categories. As a result, every meeting we have feels a bit like Christmas. New reveals for resort include mesh tops, monochrome looks that play with opacity by combining mesh and knit, and reflective styles. Yet with this collection, designer Zoe Champion and founder and…
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…
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…