The two keys to Vera Wang s lively Resort collection were lightness and layering. A hard combo for some designers to pull off, maybe, but not for the CFDA s Lifetime Achievement winner. Wang knows sheaths backwards and forwards. They were lovely on their own, but she wanted to treat them in a fresh way, so she topped them with clingy knits cropped right below the armholes, with lace vests, or with sheer tunics, which injected the lineup with a sporty ease. The casual tone continued into evening, for which she showed a tulle shift embroidered with geometric matte paillettes over another shift in a delicate dot pattern.
At the other end of the masculine-feminine divide (lightness and layering wasn t the only opposition she was interested in) were pin-striped suiting pieces. Cropped trousers and Bermuda shorts, both with contrasting seersucker waistbands, had a fresh tomboy vibe that she hinted would continue into Spring.
