The Mandarin Oriental, which opened in June behind an Art Deco-inspired facade on the Rue Saint Honoré, has rooms with neutral tones and sleek furnishings; animated floral graphics over the swimming pool; a 10,000-square-foot 10,000-square-foot 10,000-square-foot-sparred chef Thierry Marestaurantvast courunard garden.
Our duvet sets and covers feature original designs ranging from hand drawn floral to graphic patterns.
And in October, a line of resort sandals at Hogan will sport insoles with floral silhouette graphics that echo Michael Kors's bamboo fabrics from, well, last spring.
Also available is Madewell's new Eco Collection, which is made from organic cotton and utilizes sustainable dyeing techniques, as well as wintry staples such as knits and jackets, which for this season are inspired by colors in nature, florals and graphic prints.
How about a cropped pant with a graphic floral print or a shawl-collared, brick-red leather jacket?
His series of one-off, signed plates for Royal Crown Derby deconstructs traditional Imari designs: bold graphic floral patterns in the classic blue, red, and gold color schemes are chopped in pieces and overlapped.
In 2011, at the height of the industrial-chic boutique-hotel craze, she redid the rooms at Maison Thoumieux, in Paris, in flocked curtains, floral wallpaper, and graphic wall-to-wall carpet.
The designer has a knack of mixing floral prints with graphic check and of knowing just how to dose the floaty full skirts with mannish jackets or to layer an elongated cardigan over pants or a short skirt.
Saunders pulled out a pair of fluid palazzo pants in a bamboo print, one of several late-'70s-inspired motifs he designed for resort, including a graphic floral and a multicolored dot pattern that brought the artist Victor Vasarely to mind.
"This was filled with light and connected to the outdoors, so it needed to be rich and atmospheric". The designer struck the balance with layers of printed and textured fabric: a graphic floral on the walls, a Suzani embroidery on a coffee-table-sized ottoman, a tufted green velvet sofa and richly aged brown leather chairs.
Her show Friday had a certain serenity, as if she had decided that graphic florals and the company's perennial paisley print were just right for her idea of fluid summer clothes.
