The bold, mixed tropical prints Miuccia Prada showed over the summer in her 2014 resort collection turned out to be a preview of coming attractions.
From the optimistic explosion of tropical color and sequined skirts in her recent resort collection, to the cigarette pants and double-breasted flannel suits, geometric cutouts and one-sleeved sheaths for Fall 09, the collection is decidedly made for the modern woman who seeks to infuse a bit of everyday glamour into her wardrobe.
A New York painter whose exquisite landscapes briefly captivated SoHo, Adie has since lost faith in her craft, resorting to hack illustration.
Tory Burch showed her resort collection in her Madison Avenue townhouse shop (near her Upper East Side home), befitting the designer's reputation for dressing the leisure set.
Today she offers her resort hotel in Luna as a venue for meetings of Bannuar Ti La Union, an organization for women migrant workers, where she is a member: "Even as a nurse, I experienced offensive remarks from patients.
They barge on stage, shoving local talent aside and crying, "Hey, look at me". Gordon Brown, for some reason campaigning in West Bromwich, was assisted by Angelina Jolie on a phone-in from her luxury resort in Namibia.
But even reading fails her at last, and in search of some companionship, some human warmth in her life, she resorts to working magic.
So captive in her bedroom, she resorted to the iPad, flicking through cancer blogs as the only thing she could relate to.
