This season found Michelle Smith embracing the Resort spirit in a relatively classic sense. Here was elevated vacation dressing (nary a cutoff in sight) through Milly s youthful lens, leaning heavily on fluid shapes, soft tailoring, and a beachy palette of white, with splashes of high-voltage color. Smith wanted to make the message cheery, sensual, and modern, so she whipped up pieces like a white tux with lime green accents at the collar and pocket. Fabrications are a clear source of pleasure for the designer, and her developments with custom textiles continued apace, as with a diamond jacquard with sheer insets (seen in the collection s most dramatic item, a sweeping circle coat) and a rich linen blend striped in tan, chartreuse, tangerine, and teal. Not everything was quite so winning: The same shades that looked dynamic in stripes on linen seemed frenetic in an abstract print. In a head-to-toe look, the effect was not entirely sensual or modern. Still, there was plenty of ease to these pieces on the whole, and for all of Milly s myriad crop tops, Smith has a knack for making clothes that would work for many a silhouette. Amy Schumer has lately been spotted looking stellar in the label s wares—you got the sense that the high-impact comic and some of these equally punchy Resort pieces would be a similarly well-made match.
