Each season Nicole and Matthew Mellon take style cues from their travels around the world. This time, the couple went to Antwerp, where they visited the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Red Star Line Museum, which traces the history of human migration. “The collection became about the migration of ideas — taking American sportswear and giving it a little twist, just as Antwerp was the gate into America from Europe and Africa,” explained company president Frederick Anderson.
The result was a range of classic looks — a blue silk wrap dress, a herringbone duster coat, wide-leg camel pants and coat, and an emerald-green silk dress with gathered sleeve details — that fell short of an obvious global reference but delivered in wearability, which is always a good destination.