Resort.09 Review: Jenni Kayne

Jenni Kayne's Rst.09 collection was right up our alley. We loved it. The clean minimal shapes and selective use of bright "pop" colors gave this collection a girlie edge in combination with the more masculine pieces. The collection was composed of easy to wear pieces that could be mixed-and-matched to create an endless amount of looks, which was quite smart from a merchandising perspective. Her collection was not overly trendy, so a majority of the pieces could be worn for quite a few seasons to come. The double layered dresses and tops, as well as the easy to wear jackets, were a hit, and as you already know we are big fans of Kayne's jackets, since we featured her in our Best Jackets of the season for FW.2008. It was a smart, well designed collection from Kayne, with styling that showed off the clothes, as well as being properly edited so there was no redundancy from look to look and we anticipate many more strong seasons to come.

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Best Jackets of the Season

With the resort shows starting to surface, here at Albert Zoll, Inc. we decided to do a review of some of the best jackets of the last FW.08 season. Though some are more practical than others, we thought they were all quite relevant and we predict that there will be quite a few re-interpretations and unfortunately knock-offs of the look we have featured. We love the combination of intensely structured tailoring with the unexpected hints of drapery use to create the silhouettes of many of the jackets. And, or course, we had to include a few of the more avant-garde garments such as Chado Ralph Rucci with Rucci's use of line to create the dynamic surface of the jacket, which almost resembles a topographic landscape of sorts. Where Rucci used line, Giles used feathers in a big, big way with his enormous cropped version of a jacket. And finally, we have Balenciaga's eerie embroidered latex jacket which, as with most things that Ghesquiere does, is completely off and bizarre, but it works and is a beautifully designed garment.