Jane Birkin’s ’70s looks have inspired an incalculable number of collections. Her see-through white crochet wedding dress is way up on fashion Olympus. For Resort, the design team at Blumarine tapped into the mood of innocent yet provocative sensuality her style conveyed. The innocence was just barely apparent, but that’s why we love Jane Birkin so much.
Designer Anna Molinari has built the Lolita-esque style of Blumarine around the color of flamingos, candies, Marie Antoinette’s wigs, and, of course, roses. The flowers were strewn abundantly as prints on a floor-sweeping candy-pink tiered chiffon dress, and bloomed on a blush-pink pencil skirt in cotton jacquard that was paired with a dusty-pink cotton ruffled crochet sweater worn off the shoulders ingenue-style.
The pink symphony continued on macaron-hued crochet dresses à la Birkin; on long nude-pink tulle numbers delicately embroidered with roses; and on golden-pink sequined jumpsuits with a ’70s flair. To invigorate the languid mood, Molinari reverted to her beloved leopard print, throwing into the saccharine mix a wow-factor wrapcoat in lamé-wool bouclé with a fringed hem, and a pair of sexy shorts paired with a lipstick-print cropped top.
Touches of bright-lime green on an organza blouse with a pussy bow, of shiny gold on a leather Perfecto, and of turquoise on a floor-sweeping, halter-necked silk charmeuse evening dress gave the collection a charming, feminine vibrancy, which is just what you expect from Blumarine.
