There s something to be said for being slightly removed from it all. Johnny Talbot and Adrian Runhof run their 20-year-old formalwear label from Munich, and because of that, it has a distinctly unaffected point of view. Whatever Talbot and Runhof are designing, it is very much their idea. And that s usually a good thing. For Resort, the duo relied heavily on two distinct visual resources: the digital archives of L Officiel—particularly images from the early seventies—and the work of American photographer Saul Leiter, one of the first to experiment with color. The latter s influence was evident in the shades used: lots of peach, sky blue, and lime, but very saturated in a Technicolor sort of way. "Like a pastel, but not," Runhof said. The standout number—a fit-and-flare dress with matching cape jacket—was covered in a print engineered from a photo of ripped-up pieces of paper. "We tore them up ourselves," Talbot said. Look closely enough, and you could see the differences in the jagged edges. Other daywear, particularly a two-piece set done in a black-and-white rickrack pattern accented with those saturated pastels, had an artsy, quirky feel about it.
