“Every little thing is supposed to have a couple of life,” Tracy Reese mentioned over Zoom. This has lengthy been her strategy to design, and it’s evident in a resort assortment marked by Reese’s signature A-line attire and frilled tops, with a smattering beaded separates. “It’s not only for going away, it’s not only for going out,” she elaborated. “It’s essential for sustainability that all the things isn’t pigeonholed only for one specific second.”
Reese leaned into her affinity for prints, using a graphic, triangle design for a puff-sleeve mini, pencil skirt, and harem-pant jumpsuit, amongst different items. “This has all of the jewel tones that look wealthy and exquisite for the season,” she mentioned of a floral design printed on a black shift costume and different hallmark silhouettes, “but it surely’s hand-drawn, so it seems like embroidery.” The artwork nouveau poppy print that enlivens a peplum prime was a collaboration between Reese and a design assistant who joined the Hope For Flowers group late final yr. “This was the primary print that she pieced collectively, in order that was a proud inside second,” Reese famous.
Although the gathering is basically composed of designs Reese reinterprets season after season—smocked shirting, fringed trousers, sailor pants, and on a regular basis attire—newness arrives within the type of cropped jackets with sequin collars and pockets, in addition to a double-hem bubble skirt and and a beaded camisole in punchy darkish inexperienced with an identical pencil skirt. “The skirt is definitely Naia satin [a responsible fabric] within the entrance and natural cotton within the again,” she mentioned of the latter. “That provides it a bit extra oomph. And in addition, you’re not sitting on beads.” It’s the epitome of a Hope For Flowers piece: fairly, considerate, sensible.
