What a difference a year can make. The last Vogue saw of Bianca Spender, she was working with hard silhouettes and secondary colors, churning out urban sportswear with a rough edge. Resort was a much-needed about-face, full of pastels, loveliness, and ease. The show opened with a long lilac trench and trouser set, followed by draped minidresses and midis in coral, rose, cobalt, and rich emerald silks with deep V-backs and a languid sexiness. Perhaps because these draped and slinky numbers were so effortlessly cool, the rest of the collection of patterns and graphic prints felt markedly less so. The simpler, the better when it comes to Spender’s fluid ready-to-wear.
