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Resort 2011 New York

Wednesday June 29th, 2011

Markus Lupfer Brings Resort, A Film Starring Florence Welch, and a Good Dose of Humor to NYC
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Markus Lupfer Brings Resort, A Film Starring Florence Welch, and a Good Dose of Humor to NYC

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Markus Lupfer is another one of these great London-based designers poised to break into the American market in a big way. His fun, knitwear-heavy line is sold in several stores in the UK, Shopbop, Net-a-porter, Opening Ceremony, and has just been picked up by Neiman Marcus and Barneys—perhaps two of the most important retail doors this side of the Atlantic Ocean. He has done collaborations with Cacharel and Mulberry and found fans in girls like Daisy Lowe, Lily Allen, Alexa Chung and Florence Welch.

The latter actually starred in Markus’ latest project, a short film directed by Tabitha Denholm, in which Welch, Irina Lazareanu, Sadie Frost, Mary Charteris, Valentine Fillol-Cordier, Margo Stilley, Jan DeVilleneuve, Liddie Holt and Gary Card, play characters with bizarre afflictions and personality disorders. Called The Puzzle of the Mysterious Mind, the humorous, tongue-in-cheek film is meant to have the feel of a ‘60s mockumentary. Florence, for example, plays an extreme clothes hoarder while Irina is globophobic, meaning she has a fear of balloons. Each character is dressed to the nines in Markus Lupfer resort, which we got to see up close at Monday night’s screening event at the Mondrian Soho penthouse. There are many of his signature knits with fun stripes and colorful sequined embroidery, like trompe l’oeil belts and red-lipped mouths, plus a few great mini dresses.

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Monday June 20th, 2011

Rachel Comey’s Resort 2012 Look Book is Freaking Me Out a Little
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Rachel Comey’s Resort 2012 Look Book is Freaking Me Out a Little

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As big Rachel Comey fans, we were super excited to see what she had in store for resort. We ended up getting more than we bargained for with this gem of a look book.

Unfortunately, the clothes were a little difficult to pay attention to at first given all the other weird things going on in each photograph, such as:

-Little sleeping masks made of red and blue doilies
-Smurf-esque bright orange cartoon hair with seafoam green eyeshadow and what looks like a sunflower beard
-An inexplicable fringe face mask
-A model brushing her face with a very large feather
-A model sitting in a chair and staring into a bowling ball
-A model gently holding a prosthetic hand for no apparent reason
-Several models just making creepy poses with their backs to the camera

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Friday June 17th, 2011

Altuzarra Resort 2011: Sweet Simplicity For the City or Saint-Tropez
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Altuzarra Resort 2011: Sweet Simplicity For the City or Saint-Tropez

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As much as Prabal may have deserved it, I have to admit I was a little bummed that Joseph Altuzarra didn’t win the coveted Swarovski Award for Womenswear at this year’s CFDA‘s (he was our prediction). Of course, being nominated for something so prestigious is almost as significant as winning, and the loss clearly hasn’t hindered the designer in the least. Altuzarra presented his first ever resort collection this week and we got to get up close and personal with it at his showroom yesterday. That after a mere two years in the biz, he is able to do a full resort collection is a testament to Altuzarra’s talent and inevitable continued success, especially given how awesome this collection is.

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Peter Pilotto Pre-Spring 2012: Clashing, Yet Classic
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Peter Pilotto Pre-Spring 2012: Clashing, Yet Classic

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Peter Pilotto‘s Pre-Spring 2012 look book recently hit our inboxes and we are kind of in love. Unlike many of the resort shows we’ve seen this week, Pilotto and Christopher De Vos did not give us a single shred of black, white or neutral. Everything is a bright spectrum of primary colors and aside from a blue pantsuit and pair of yellow trousers, every piece is a print. We always admire when a designer doesn’t stay completely safe with a resort collection, and this is an example of that. Still, despite the boldness of the at times clashing prints, the silhouettes are all pretty classic and wearable, including various short shifts, A-line skirts and dresses (with pockets!), pencil skirts and tailored trousers. Click through for images!

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Tuesday June 14th, 2011

Stella McCartney Spring 2012: Secret Garden Party
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Stella McCartney Spring 2012: Secret Garden Party

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The fashion crowd got transported outside of New York for a sec at yesterday evening’s Stella McCartney Spring 2012 “presentation.” I put the word “presentation” in quotes because it was really a party, held in the idyllic Garden of St. Luke in the Fields in the West Village. Once I got past the paparazzi (seriously) and walked down the little cobblestone path into the charming walled park, it felt like I had left the city and entered the secret garden. On my way to the party, I found a couple of guys playing music (they are probably some really hip band I don’t know about), followed by a small clearing with a selection beautiful accessories arranged on shabby wooden benches so casually that I am actually surprised nothing got stolen (those shoes were beyond amazing and I’m pretty sure no one was looking after them).

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Erin by Erin Fetherston Resort/Holiday 2012: What A Girl Wants
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Erin by Erin Fetherston Resort/Holiday 2012: What A Girl Wants

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Erin Fetherston is a girl’s girl through and through, and for the resort/holiday collection she delivered exactly what the most feminine could desire. In the constant cycle of collections it’s easy to overlook the purpose of a line, namely, to clothe the body. When searching for a New Year’s dress or a light frock for a post-holiday vacation, it’s likely that the search will lean more towards fun and functional than the conceptual artistry of the larger main collections.

With Fetherston’s diffusion line, Erin by Erin Fetherston, which debuted for fall 2011, she sought to give girls just that. “It wasn’t so much a conceptual line, like the major spring and fall collections. I wanted to experiment with different fun fabrics but make something that could transition from holiday weather to spring,” she said. Centering around staple party dresses at more affordable prices (no item exceeds $695, and the average price is about $375), the line is a perfect mix of transitional yet seasonal pieces and avoids the wear-it-once demon that may set you back more than a one-night dress should.

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Published at 11:30 AM

Monday June 13th, 2011

Tribune Standard Resort 2011: Macramé and More
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Tribune Standard Resort 2011: Macramé and More

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Tribune Standard is a promising new line from designer Tawfik Mounayer. In this case, we don’t use the word promising lightly. Resort is only the designer’s second collection under his own label and the quality, attention to detail, and clear vision shown is at a level way beyond that of someone so new to the game. This is because Tawfik is somewhat of a veteran, having worked for Gap, Ann Taylor, Isaac Mizrahi for Target and, most recently, served as vice president of design at Liz Claiborne. Tawfik has successfully taken everything he’s learned at these mega-brands and channeled it into a focused contemporary label that’s getting lots of positive attention.

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Wednesday December 8th, 2010

Jason Wu Pre Fall 2011 Was Inspired by the Original Street Style Photographers
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Jason Wu Pre Fall 2011 Was Inspired by the Original Street Style Photographers

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Jason Wu’s Pre Fall 2011 collection was inspired by Elegance: The Seeberger Brothers and the Birth of Fashion Photography, a book of photographs by the Seeberger brothers, who were essentially the Scott Schuman and Tommy Ton of the early twentieth century. Everything from the glamorous dresses to the black and white of the pictures made its way into the ladylike collection.

The colors are, compared to past collections, subtle, and gorgeous. There is an art deco feel to many of the pieces, including a blouse and shift dress with shimmering beading on the collar (photos don’t do the sparkle justice). There is a black leather dress that somehow looks more ladylike than tough. There are several skirts that are begging to be worn by Blair Waldorf and a pale green gown that belongs on a red carpet.

To me, the most lust-worthy pieces (and there were many) were the coats.

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Published at 11:29 AM

Wednesday July 21st, 2010

Catherine Malandrino Rocks Out For Resort 2010/11
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Catherine Malandrino Rocks Out For Resort 2010/11

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Yesterday I stopped by Catherine Malandrino’s showroom in the Garment District to check out her Holiday/Resort 2010/11 collections for “Catherine Malandrino,” which is at a contemporary price point, as well as “Malandrino,” her designer price point line.

It was fitting that Mary J. Blige’s “Family Affair” was blasting in the showroom, as the designer and the R&B star have become besties. Malandrino showed her latest “Malandrino” Resort collection on the runway at MoMA this past June to benefit Mary J’s FFAWN charity–that stands for Foundation for the Achievement of Women Now–and the duo teamed up to design a capsule collection of t-shirts together this past winter to raise funds for FFAWN.

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Thursday July 1st, 2010

Our Latest Obsession: Ikat Print
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Our Latest Obsession: Ikat Print

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Though the tribal print trend seems to be heading out the door, there is something so cute and chic about the ikat print specifically that makes us want to wear it in as many ways as possible. It’s been on a few runways recently, including as Dries Van Noten, Gucci, Marc and Balenciaga. Our love for ikat blossomed even more yesterday when we checked out Cynthia Vincent’s upcoming Resort 2011 accessories collection, which was full of the colorful print. See above for our inspiration and click through for some more accessible examples that you can buy right now.

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Wednesday June 30th, 2010

Three New York Girls Wear Jeffrey Monteiro’s Resort Collection Three Different Ways
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Three New York Girls Wear Jeffrey Monteiro’s Resort Collection Three Different Ways

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Double duty designer Jeffrey Monteiro recently shot his Resort 2011 look book on the streets of Nolita.

But instead of bringing in professional models, the veteran asked four of his friends to throw on some frocks and style them in their own special way. The final book will only feature a single interpretation of each look, but we thought it’d be fun to show you how three approached one. The star of this trio? Resort 2011′s Kuru dress.

Click through to meet the girls, and get a first look at the dress.

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Published at 5:00 PM

Monday June 28th, 2010

Julie Haus Talks Resort 2011 and Her Collab With Anthropologie
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Julie Haus Talks Resort 2011 and Her Collab With Anthropologie

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Last week I stopped by Julie Haus’s showroom in the Garment District to check out her resort collection.

While the line boasts the sweet feminine separates we’ve come to expect from Haus – breezy silk tops with zipper detailing and adorable pleat-front shorts – this collection’s got a bit of edge. Prints are bold, graphic and even psychadellic. Dresses are slouchy and painstakingly draped and pleated. Blazers are embellished with grommets and sprockets.

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