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Adam Lippes

With the opening of Cuba to American visitors, it was inevitable that the island country would have a ripple effect on fashion. Adam Lippes used his Resort collection to explore and express his enthusiasm for the place. He went two decades ago, and the trip still lingers in his memory. But Lippes is not a designer who treads heavily in themes; the clothes wore their Cuban influences lightly.

His guayabera, for example, looked utterly feminine elongated into a shirtdress and accented with delicate ladder stitching. And the hand-drawn print of jungle flora and fauna was subtle, not overly ripe on a breezy, double-layer dress. Elsewhere, the references were glancing at most. Crocheted knits had the feel of the homespun but remained urbane, and the same went for dresses trimmed with deep swathes of fringe at the hem. Probably the most covetable pieces in the collection, which Lippes says is consistently his biggest of the year, were the leather separates. Extroverts will like the red leather overalls. This introvert preferred the bottle green jacket that cinched at the waist.

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