Tip Top

 

Head-to-toe prints are splattered all over the Resort 2013 collections. They remind me a bit of a grandmother, but I'm totally OK with that. Even the fabrics that are decidedly retro are kept cool with slinky cuts that feel anything but dowdy.

From top: Moschino, Burberry, Erdem, Givenchy

Mark My Words:

Oxblood, iridescence, shirt dresses, PVC

Seeing Celine

You could split hairs with the tailoring in Celine's 2013 Resort collection:

Resort 3.1

I'm not too young to remember the '90s well. It was the era that saw my introduction to fashion as an intensely personal and creative outlet. I got my first fashion magazine then (cool lime and angular cuts covered the thick pages of Bazaar back then); I started wearing a rainbow-colored African beanie; and, incidentally, I had a pet monkey Beanie Baby. And a hackey sack I never mastered.

But Phillip Lim has mastered all things Resort 2013. His collection is stocked with crisp lines reminiscent but not overtly '90s. Here are a few of my favorite things looks:

And let's call a few trends now:

a) pantsuits will continue to reign

b) we're still entertaining the idea that overalls can be chic

c) graphic--whether black & white in digitized prints--will dominate; it's only counterpoint the equally popular monochromatic trend