“All this quiet luxury, it’s a slippery slope to just boring,” Amy Smilovic said while walking through her resort collection for Tibi. While her label makes many things that could fall under the increasingly popular category of stealth wealth—logoless ready-to-wear with a nonchalant attitude—she makes sure that every staple is balanced out with weirdness. Her flats are made out of gold nylon, her sweatpants have massive barrel legs, and her black leggings are really jodhpurs, preferably worn with socks and strappy heels.
Rather than concern herself with making something self consciously elegant, Smilovic focuses on ease, sportiness, and personality. The resort lookbook was photographed in Vienna, because Americans, Smolivic explained, tend to associate Europe with effortless chic. It’s a tight edit, with knee-length skirts, tailored blazers, oversized sweaters and wide-leg trousers as building blocks. A black tube top, an ostrich-print leather midi skirt, and those gold shoes add some of the levity Smilovic values. It’s definitely more utilitarian than her main season collections tend to be, but she nonetheless avoided that aforementioned slippery slope.
