“You’re designing for the woman who’s going to be wearing it, rather than the whole world who will view it,” said Huishan Zhang of his approach to resort in contrast to the showier expectations of a main season collection. With that in mind, for his first resort lineup Zhang played with the silhouettes he’s built his label on since its debut in 2011. These included a girlish round-neck dress in ice blue, overlaid with a delicate layer of black-and-white floral-patterned lace, and a high-necked, high-waisted gown with a Sixties feel, done in black organza embroidered with scores of tiny white flowers.
Zhang said he had looked to Georgia O’Keeffe’s flower paintings as a starting point, with one silk mini dress done in swirls of blue, black and pink, to evoke her brush strokes. And inspired by O’Keeffe’s paintings of the desert, Zhang did a jacket in what looked like muted pink snakeskin, but it was, in fact, a printed and coated cotton.