For Resort, See by Chloé imagined its dream customer as a young English girl finding her way in Paris. If that story sounds familiar, it s part of the point: Chloé s creative director, Clare Waight Keller, is English born and now Paris based, and for the first time she s taking Chloé s secondary collection in hand. (For Resort, her design studio was in control; beginning next season, she herself will be fully immersed.)
The upshot is a fresh, young—make that very young—take on See. Start at the ground: The key shoes were low-top leather sneakers for kicking around in. The bag was a slouchy leather satchel. (One S-by-C er noted you could let it drop, without any great fuss, on the café floor.) Denim romper dresses and big culotte shorts drew a hard line between big Chloé and See, but the peppy young collection could soon find its legs. It distilled bits from its sister collection s archive with varying success—a geometric print from the Lagerfeld era, Waight Keller s favorite Chloé period, was cute; an abstracted leopard spot, overlaid with colorful scrawl, looked busy—but it also had a few hits all its own. A hooded parka in mackintosh fabric was a standout. All in all, something to look forward to.
