After designer Clare Waight Keller visited the Villa Savoye in Poissy, a 1930s modernist villa near Paris, she decided to channel Le Corbusier’s clean, minimal architecture in the brand’s Resort 2015 lineup. The French fashion house’s designer played with structured, yet loose, draped looks, seen in boxy jackets and shift dresses, but mixed them up with more feminine, fluid pieces. A leather color-blocked pullover was paired with a loose, pastel blush-colored flowy floor length skirt, emphasizing the juxtaposition of more structured, edgy pieces with the classically feminine feel of the label.
Waight Keller played with fringe throughout the collection, seen as an added detail in a pastel tweed look, which faintly resembles a fringed burlap sack. The fringe created a casual, textured loose white pullover when paired with a lacy skirt and as a detail on the sleeves of a long black see-through dress.
Much of the collection played on a mix of structure and architecture with femininity and elegance, yet one look, a sky blue off the shoulder dress with frill details and jewel straps embodied the classic flirty feel the label usually portrays.
Overall, the lineup displayed interesting mixes of patterns and textures to convey a structured and functional, yet feminine feel.
