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Paul & Joe

More and more, it seems that the Paul & Joe girl is a flower girl at heart, even when she entertains a season here or there as a minimalist or a mod. Partly this is owing to founder Sophie Mechaly’s eternal love for the late ’60s/early ’70s—perhaps her personal golden age. Mechaly shot the Resort collection outside of London, where a bucolic riverside backdrop proved a perfect fit for the sweet broderie anglaise blouses, lace T-shirts, and hazy blue slipdresses. All the denim—including a floor-sweeping skirt, jumpsuit, and baggy jeans—furthered the message. Sailor pants, striped knits, and a fitted coatdress, meanwhile, channeled the same era yet from the French side.

Once you’ve accounted for the clogs, snap-front pencil skirts, and trapeze safari jacket, you arrive at a solid representation of updated throwbacks. The green-and-orange print by Dahlov Ipcar underscores the idea most of all; the 97-year-old American painter-illustrator apparently gave her blessing after Mechaly fell head over heels for the artist’s childish-cum-bohemian approach to form and color. And maybe this explains the in-house print featuring a hippie head set within simplified clouds. Mechaly said she thought the visual idiom captured her own free spirit. Or was it Paul & Joe’s? Moot point, really.

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