Resort 2009

This morning Net-a-Porter revealed their first deliveries from Richard Nicoll's cruise collection, and the wash of colors has us dreaming for vacation time. This midseason offering fits in nicely with Nicoll's Spring 09 collection which similarly features jolts of hot pink and silhouettes that are streamlined and loose-fitting. Nicoll is a graduate of Central St Martins and worked with Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton before launching his own collection in 2005. Along with the first four pieces from his cruise collection, the designer created an exclusive item for Net-a-Porter--namely, his coveted oversized t-shirt dress in navy (left). Classic, modern, and versatile it's no wonder Net-a-Porter requested he make the hot pink dress in another shade. Now Nicoll customers can get the bright statement dress and the classic basic from the same great silhouette. 

Imagine our surprise when we received an abbreviated version of this look book in the mail and it was titled "Stella McCartney Spring 2009". This was just a week or two after the Stella McCartney Spring 2009 show had commenced in Paris and we were amazed at the speediness of the look book (never mind that we receive the paper artifacts in the first place--another topic entirely). Upon further inspection we realized that the looks we recognized were not those which we had seen on the runway in Paris but in those which we remember affront a grassy backdrop of some sort....and then it hit us, "Ohhhhh, this is Resort". Well this midseason offering, eighty-odd looks in all, is hardly something to squeeze between two proper seasons and so McCartney has titled this collection "Spring" and her collection that we saw in Paris "Summer". Although this will undoubtedly jumble everyone's tagging a bit, we think the re-titling completely appropriate. To top it all off we can't even claim that the collection is in need of editing--we think this plethora of pieces will suit the Stella McCartney customer just fine.