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A long holiday in Australia inspired Michael Kors’ Resort collection, a very signature sporty/sophisticated mix of fluorescents, zebra prints, and scuba-influenced silhouettes, michael kors outlet canada
along with some gold brocade a shade or two deeper than his models’ tans. “Sydney is the ultimate city beach life,” he said. “I was in love.”

But Kors is nothing if not an equal-opportunity designer. He explained that an acid green and black stretchy wetsuit dress could work with black tights and ankle booties in New York or bare legs and flip-flops in St. Bart’s. Versatility is the key to what he described as his brand’s biggest season of the year. So is range. The bright, graphic lineup included everything from “eat-your-heart-out-Ursula” bikinis and a sleeveless stretch bouclé tennis dress to ten-ply cashmere sweaters and a reefer coat in a cashmere/angora mix.

The Resort season is just getting under way, but already neons and sport are emerging as two early trends. That puts Kors smack-dab in the middle of things.If the celebrity crush was a little crushier and the furs on the runway a little fluffier at Michael Kors this morning, there was a good reason. The designer is marking his 30th year in business. Yes, he started young—at 19, in fact. Tonight, he’ll celebrate in the tony confines of Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle, where it’s a good bet that some of the boldfacers in the front row—Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bette Midler, Anjelica Huston, and Debra Messing, for starters—will turn up. Next month, no less a figure than the American ambassador to France will welcome him to Paris, with a festive dinner. Kors is opening a store there on Rue Saint-Honoré, and they’re putting the finishing touches on a renovated Madison Avenue flagship as we speak. In other words, the designer is having a pretty good birthday year.

But we’re here to talk about the clothes. You wouldn’t be wrong if you called this a greatest-hits collection. Over his career, Kors has ridden double-face cashmere, slinky silk jersey, the aforementioned fox fur, and evening crystals straight to number one, and they were all in abundance today. His MO this time around: playing luxe tailoring against languid draping. For every clean charcoal flannel jacket and straight-leg trouser, there was a clingy cocktail dress or gown. He’s loving a tunic for Fall, but they shared the runway with bodysuits. The operative word here was sleek; even the furs were knitted to eliminate some of their inherent bulk. The prettiest came in soft shades of plum and mauve, layered over matching draped jersey tops and pajama pants. Nearly every look in the show was monochrome, the better to create that long, uninterrupted line Kors favors.

For the guys, there were luxe takes on wardrobe essentials, too, like leather reefers, tissue-weight knits, and trousers in stretch gab. But the boys couldn’t help fading into the background a bit with all the crystal-studded evening numbers Kors offered, the last one modeled to sultry effect by his favorite model, Carmen Kass, in his favorite color, suntan.

If you want relaxed but unalloyed glamour, this collection proved that 30 years on, Kors is still the man to give it to you.

“All you writers in the room need to come up with a new word. ‘Pre’ [as in pre-fall] is disgusting,” Michael Kors announced at the beginning of a showroom presentation of his new collection today.michael kors handbags canada
As quick with crisp, neat basics as he is with quips, the designer turned out a sharply graphic, city-sleek lineup in a strong palette of white, black, red, and electric blue. For day, there was a “Faye Dunaway in Network” black leather shirtdress and a black shift with subtle blue trim at the shoulders and waistline. The latter was “for the woman who swears she’s gonna wear color” but has a closet full of black.

On the more casual side: tapered and cropped pants worn with easy ribbed sweaters “to collect in every color” and striped T-shirts in the finest cashmere. Kors didn’t offer a lot of evening options, but he was certain a red chiffon jersey number gathered at the bodice with a contrasting leather harness would be big in Hollywood: “It didn’t walk down a runway, so it’s not overexposed.” On the accessories front, he showed “front-row boots” in knee-high print palomino ponyskin, harness bags that can be worn three ways “for everyone who’s dividends didn’t come through,” and “Anne Slater sunglasses” with blue lenses. About the only thing he didn’t deliver: a new name for this awkwardly titled season.michael kors is in a sunshine state of mind, and can you blame him? He picked up the CFDA’s Lifetime Achievement Award in June, his company is expected to break the $1 billion sales barrier this year, and then there are those persistent rumors that the Project Runway star is about to get a TV show of his own. The collection opened optimistically, as others have this week, with a passage in white: a gauzy long-sleeve T-shirt over a leg-baring sarong for her, a matching linen suit and tank for him. And the life’s-a-breeze, easy-luxe attitude didn’t end there.

A daffodil tissue-cashmere tank dress popped with energy, as did the tunic dress with three-quarter sleeves that followed. With the exception of his maillots (some for actual swimming, others strictly for sunbathing), the silhouette was loosened up: Pantsuits for both the guys and the girls were relaxed and shirts were worn un-tucked; cardigans came oversize and cozy; and gray cashmere-cotton sweatshirt fabric played a starring role.

The theme carried into extras, as well, like exuberantly big cross-body messenger bags (an equal-opportunity accessory) and easy-on-the-feet platform wedges and flat sandals. Even evening was a casually cool affair. Kors’ draped silk jersey gowns in ultra-bright yellow and pink were more caftan on the beach than A-lister on the red carpet. In fact, a bit of his usual polished swagger wouldn’t have gone amiss.

Kors skipped after-dark completely for the guys, unless you count the one lucky male model who got to walk the runway in something called “sky striped techno taffeta pajama pants.” Come spring, his nature boys will be sporting Bermuda shorts and sweater vests that dip low enough in front to expose a swatch of chest hair. Life’s a beach. 0aZkdBNa