This season found creative director Emily Smith questioning the nature of resort — what’s the climate? What are women doing? Is it holiday clothing? Is it travel garb? — and making sure she covered every answer, with a lineup of over 800 pieces to fit every occasion a global traveler could encounter.
Despite the size, a sense of ease and fluidity ran throughout the collection, along with playful little details like a ruching effect (particularly effective on off-shoulder cotton poplin tops). Hard was juxtaposed with soft: Ultrathin leather jackets could be paired with beachy silk dresses, then styled over wide-leg pants — a new silhouette for the brand — that came in both stretch cotton and double-face wool. A short bomber jacket over a color-blocked dress played on proportion, with a current-meets-vintage vibe.
As everything was meant to be layered, seasonless and interchangeable, weight (or lack thereof) was key, and so Smith did a chic beige trenchcoat in light nylon. She also dug through archival scarf prints and reinterpreted a geometric blue-brown combo onto statement patchwork coats, vibrant tops and skirts.