Future Fantastic – Donna Karan’s Resort 2012 collection looks towards the future with sculptured shapes and metal accents. Offering masculine tailoring with feminine frills, hoop skirts and the button-up t-shirt get reinvented for a sleekly chic uniform. Topped off with a color palette of red, white and black–the resort lookbook offers the perfect play between elegant and street wear ready.
Donna Karan is having a body-con moment. For Resort 2012, cheap prom gowns were cut close to the body, bootleg pants hugged curves, and racer jackets zipped snugly. However, don’t go thinking these clothes are only for the tiny.
“Stretchy! This is the beautiful thing about these; they fit her, they fit me,” said Donna Karan, snapping the fabric of a model’s pant. In a mix-and-match palette of red, black, and silver — and with silhouettes ranging from sporty to formal — these are styles that Karan designed to go the extra mile.
An embroidered pencil skirt with a paneled white jacket could easily go from office to office party, while a stunning white tulle and ribbon concoction — inspired by a Christmas tree — could be the perfect New Year’s Eve ensemble.
“They’re in the stores for the longest amount of time,” Karan explained of the fifty look collection’s versatility. “They’re meant to be worn every single night during the holiday season.”
These pieces—nice yet cheap cocktail dresses, in effect—play up the sporty motif that imbued the entire collection. There were scuba jackets and piecework collage skirts reminiscent of racing gear (they put Karan in mind of her late husband’s Ducati-riding outfits).
Skintight tops paired with voluminous skirts. There were cocoons, cape coats, and flaring trenches here, too. But the message that read most clearly was the female form and all its curves.
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