Veronica Etro took the famed paisley print of her family’s design house on an intrepid tour through the jungle for resort. Not any specific one, more a mythologized notion of a steamy locale where ladylike sheaths, structured blazers, and billowing, oversize shirts, dazzling with tattoo-like prints, are the appropriate attire. So it didn’t take much to decipher that these silhouettes were created with upbeat urban dwellers in mind, rather than any those jetting off to a torrid location.
What resort has taught us so far is if a collection isn’t for traveling, then it’s about convivial looks for the holiday season (these clothes land in stores in time for Thanksgiving and stay until early spring). If that’s true for Etro, then a relaxed, boxy shift with low-slung pockets—which started out with a graphic, paisley design and soon trickled, ombre-style, into a scattering of flora and tribal patterns—would be the collection’s after-hours forerunner. At the other end of the spectrum, a basket-weave–print pantsuit and matching tweed skirt suit embroidered with gardenias offered quieter, but no less optimistic alternatives. All in all, not for shrinking wallflowers.
