Christopher Esber is at his best when he embraces a feminine fluidity in his work. For Resort, he used the frozen draping of Greek and Roman statuary as a reference for his classically elegant pieces. The best of the bunch was, inarguably, a series of bias dresses slashed with French lace inserts, inspired, he said, by the way statues erode and deconstruct over time. The reference is not immediately obvious in a cornflower blue dress with ivory insets, and that’s to Esber’s advantage. Rather than make point-for-point interpretations, he used classicism as a jumping-off point for one of his strongest collections to date, infusing wardrobe staples with an arty spin. Whether in a tear-away frock or an Aegean blue slip dress, the Christopher Esber customer will be happily dressed.
