Bianca Jagger. Jerry Hall. Loulou de la Falaise. Lorenzo Serafini has said goodbye to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof–era Liz Taylor and hello to the famously fabulous denizens of Studio 54. The New York nightclub opened its doors for the first time 40 years ago, so there’s a nice bit of synchronicity at work. But that’s not what will attract women to this new collection. Us gals have far baser desires, and Serafini knows it. Put simply: When we go out, we want to be looked at, and that’s all but guaranteed with his one-shoulder, ruffle-trimmed, rainbow-stripe poplin dress. For Resort, Serafini’s colors are vibrant, his shapes are ruffled and fluid, and his dresses are fringed with silk tassels. Watch them shimmy on the dance floor.
The kind of decade hopping that Serafini practices could prove confusing in the long run, but, for one thing, his muses are all of a type: the non-wallflower type. Beyond his one-shoulder and off-the-shoulder dresses (the latter directly inspired by a dress Jagger wore to a party thrown by Halston in December ’77), he cut a period-perfect white pantsuit piped in black and a few pairs of leather pants. Note the high waistband, the double pleats, the roomy fit. Those pants have legs on and off the dance floor.
