Elie Saab, Resort 2012 - redacted

NEW YORK, June 29, 2011

With the resort collection just shown yesterday, and couture week beginning July 4th, I'm guessing the petits-mains at Elie Saab are almost worn away. Take a look, tell me what you think.

Marchesa Resort 2012 - redacted

Marchesa, 2012 Resort

NEW YORK, June 23, 2011

By Nicole Phelps - style.com

Slim Aarons' legendary book of photographs A Place in the Sun was a starting point for Marchesa's Resort lineup. The floaty coral caftan with the matching bead embroidery at the shoulders and the thigh-scraping metallic lace dress were designed for parties by the pool and cocktails under the stars rather than the red carpet and the photographers angling for shots beside it. "We take a more sales-driven approach to this collection," explained designers Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig. A label can't live on celebrity dressing alone. Still, we wouldn't be surprised to see a few of these numbers on the pages of a gossip magazine. Neither the showstopping allover silver beaded floor-length dress with a plunging back or a white goddess gown with a shawl of jeweled fringe made it through their first day of appointments before being requested for a shoot or an event or some other fabulous thing.

Erdem, Resort 2012

Review by Sarah Mower

A monsoon-like downpour fell on a steamy London as Erdem Moralioglu was shooting his resort collection onGuinevere van Seenus in his studio last week. Just the weather for looking at one of his great raincoats, then: a half-houndstooth Linton tweed, half-waterproof cinched trench. It’s a variation on the rainwear he had going a few seasons ago, now back by popular demand, and calculated to be delivered “at that time when fall’s just about to come—but you’re not ready for it yet.” Moralioglu searched around for a label to define this collection and came up with “Slightly Hitchcockian.” It’s an allusion you can see if you narrow your eyes, evident in the shapely, nipped-waist tweed-and-lace dresses (which have nude linings in powernet). But really, the breadth and offhand assuredness of this line-up is simply Very Erdem: evidence of a young designer in his groove, confidently turning out colorful, pretty, happy clothes that hit many spots in the wardrobe.

What his women know (and their numbers are exponentially growing: this boy sells in 30 countries now) is that Erdem is as good at an early evening party dress, perhaps with an asymmetric crepe drape over a lace sheath, as he is at the long, languid, easy-to-wear but completely event-ready gown. Toward Christmas, there’s going to be fierce competition in that latter category. The winner? Without a doubt: she who gets her hands on the fluted dove-gray dress with the navy lace top. It’s not just the way the sprigs of flowered lace are cut out and re-embroidered at the waist—it’s the trailing drape from the shoulder Erdem put in the back: a silhouette which instantly makes a modern girl stand like a thirties siren.