The Staud woman is ready to go out. Where doesn’t really matter; could be to hike through the desert, could be to karaoke, could be to a black tie event. All that matters is she’s no longer at home, sitting in her sweatpants and knitting a blanket. “It’s not weather specific but it’s tied together in this idea of versatility,” said designer Sarah Staudinger. “Internally we’ve been joking that it’s buy now, where now, which is cheesy but I think is a good way to describe a resort collection.”
While she didn’t design anything strictly technical, she did create clothes that gesture towards utility: reversible khaki and chambray jackets, shorts with leather pockets, and a quilted, padded cotton poplin skirt (paired with a bustier). Après hiking isn’t really a thing, unlike its skiing counterpart, but that’s where you’d wear many of these pieces. Influenced by the super bloom of poppies that occurred in California earlier this year, Staudinger turned the flower into a print. For evening, an oversized poppy motif appears on organza maxi dresses and skirts. On a day-dress, it’s a ditsy floral. The lookbook culminates in a vibrant red strapless long dress. “She is the poppy,” Staudinger said.
The easy dresses and sets Staud is known for run throughout the collection, and natural and technical fabrics like raffia, polar fleece, space knits are balanced out by sexier leather, rhinestones, and burnout velvet. Staudinger called out two outfits as being particularly emblematic of the vibe. The first is a polar fleece blue skirt, jacket, and crop top combo with cargo pockets and a print of what Staudinger called a bad surfer tattoo of a turtle. “It’s sort of a sexy stargazing outfit with the velcro rhinestone sandal,” she said. The second outfit consists of a long organza skirt covered with the poppy print, a colorblocked sweater in two shades of bright pink, and a rainbow hat. “She has her beanie on; she’s ready to go. She’s the vibe,” Staudinger says. Indeed, the collection covers all the bases for a young crowd looking to travel (and pack extravagantly) again. Got your baggy denim cargo pants and rhinestone tube top? Check and check.
