“The collection is about icons, about nostalgia. It’s about relics; celebrating inheritance and memory — the things we hold onto,” Sarah Staudinger said of her latest opulent, unfussy and exciting resort collection.
The designer, who was fresh off of her Summer of Staud kick-off celebration in the Amalfi Coast with a limited-edition Staud x Da Adolfo capsule collection, was yearning to celebrate wardrobes accumulated through generations, which she nailed through her resort collection.
“The heart of this collection is really that idea of the multi-generational wardrobe: your grandmother’s tapestries, mom’s couture, brother’s band T-shirt, sister’s party dresses, and dad’s leather bomber jacket. All these like fragments of different lives and generations just merged into chaotic harmony,” she explained of evoking old world romance into looks that mixed together opulence and modernity; romance with grunge, and the grand against the grind.
Throughout the collection, vintage ideas became new through the Staud lens with, as always, a dose of humor — see the season’s collectible “Barbara” stegosaurus-shaped minauderie, pillow-y slides and clutches, and cool metal rock t-shirts — and artful inspirations, such as her great painterly knit plisse sets and a new pair of slightly flared jeans covered in a painterly Dutch still life scene.
The collection was full of textures and bold hues, including greens and deep purples drawn from the Dutch Masters’ palettes, as seen in great leather and suede trousers. In eveningwear, this spanned from slinky thin racerback numbers to a strapless beaded dress made up of patchwork leopard, tapestry and Renaissance motifs that spanned the collection and a fur-trimmed metallic brocade dress with matching crop jacket. The looks were paired with a mix of accessories that bridged the modernity she was seeking — see the new Foro Twist Lock belts and handbags — with vintage appeal.
This “clash” of the more ornate with the everyday also nicely worked its way into daywear, with an expansion of her brand’s signature beading appearing on sweet shoes, sack bags, bandeau tops and the waistband of trousers, while the bold hues and rich textures came to life in leather or suede trousers, a zip-off shearling statement coat and leather accessories, to name a few.
