For Resort, Albino Teodoro joined the bandwagon of fashion designers referencing photographer Slim Aarons’s gilded rendition of the privileged lives of the rich and famous. This reviewer has seen more mood boards plastered with pictures of C.Z. Guest, Marella Agnelli, Babe Paley, and the like than can be counted. But nostalgia for a time when sophisticated, carefree life was almost a fastidious art form is always a potent aphrodisiac for designers, so be it.
Albino referenced the sense of elegance Aarons’s images exuded; the lean, precisely cut couture-like volumes he favors would have been at home in one of Truman Capote’s swans’ wardrobes. Although he infused a modern, practical ease and breezy vibe into the collection, he stayed true to his architectural construction and tailored approach. Day dresses were standouts, offered either tiered, floor sweeping, and billowy, or cut like a masculine shirt in striped poplin with plays on asymmetries.
Evening had a chic glamour, with elongated, fluid lines skimming the body and a sensually restrained construction, such as the desert rose satin one-shoulder column dress ruched on the side. It would look lovely on one of the young celebrities who are choosing Albino for red carpet options.
