Resort 2025: A Brief Recap

Besides the Fall/Winter and the Spring/Summer seasons, another enters the picture and shines: Resort (AKA Cruise). As a line launched between the two main collections, Resort fills in the gaps in the industry calendar and is also crucial for current labels – functioning as a thermometer for the market to help the luxury brands see what it is selling. 

With mostly commercial designs, the Resort collections have emerged as a necessity in the current era of excessive consumption and the various trends that come and go. But once upon a time, these consisted of just summer staples for wealthy customers who could go on cruises and stay at resorts. Now, with customers all over the world needing garments for different temperatures, Resort collections have become something of a seasonless period, although most big houses tend to incorporate elements of the place where they’re showing their collections – think of Versace X Dua Lipa La Vacanza 2023 in Cannes, France.  Ahead, check out some of the Resort 2025 collections that shaped the 2024 fashion scene.

Sandy Liang Resort 2025 

Sandy Liang is no stranger in the fashion scene. Known as the internet-famous designer behind iconic Mary Jane Pointe and bow bags, the Chinese-American designer is charming coquette lovers with her girly designs. 

If in 2023 her designs were a hit with the reclamation of feminine trends such as Barbie, Coquette and Ballet core, in 2024 she has shown that the girly flair still remains at Sandy Liang. 

In Fall 2024 ready-to-wear blouses were adorned with miniature ribbons, flower brooches decorated blouses and jackets, skirts acquired furry textures, florals ruled sets and dresses, billowy skirts kept flowing, baby-doll dresses played on, star-shaped metal became bags, and flats remained on exhibit – after all, they were made for walking. 

 And for Resort 2025, the feminine mania was no different. Looking back to her childhood, Liang created a line based on a young girl's notion of what a woman wears in the workplace. Blair Waldorf-style headband, flounced skirt and formal blouse with matching tie made the first look.

 The looks continued with heart-shaped belts, cardigans in olive, navy, and cerulean, and ribbon skirts seen in shades of teal and ivory, all exuding tailoring combined with a childlike charm that only Liang could be responsible for. 

The formality of workwear continued to be seen in blazers with accentuated folds at the collar, a white dress with a blouse-like silhouette which has a pocket near the bust that reads "SL" with a petite bow sewn on it, and a suede-like beige blazer and tennis-style skirt. 

For the innocence and frivolity of childhood, see the accessories such as a star necklace and ribbon earrings. Then, the carefree flair was transferred to garments such as a baby pink blazer with a black ruffled skirt, glossy sets that almost evoke the '60s fashion, and an off-the-shoulder dress with a giant white ribbon with a rose in the center. 

As for the star – which was a bag last season and now a necklace – it has grown into a black jacket with an embroidered star in the center and a shiny white blazer and pants with two black stars in the nipples and black frills at the waist and hems.

But the space elements weren't all referenced – at some point the star took on more of a mermaid feel. With the ultimate aquamarine vibe, looks in Tiffany blue such as a long skirt and graphic star-print tee, a blouse with a cut-out and a spaghetti dress with a flower on one shoulder represented every girl's dream: to be a mermaid. “At the end of the day, I’m just a girl, designing for other girls,” concluded Liang in an interview once for Dazed. 

Coach Resort 2025

Stuart Ververs always had that kind of real energy that made us get into more on the Coach world. That,because the label under his creative direction focuses on the moment. Some might say that the Coach gal or boy are very demure. And yes they are. 

As some sort of premonition to the new internet slang, Ververs created something very demure, very mindful. “Our belief is that our client is living in the real world. She’s living in the moment,” says the creative director for Vogue Runway. 

It’s urban meets punky and we kind of love it. Cozy knits meet tweedy skirts and ribbons. Sheer dresses meet crochet pieces in a great example of cool layering. 

Polo shirts, comfy jackets, and Popeye graphic tees meet pajama pants and shorts for the ultimate coziness. Everything has a bag for some extra touch. And with a Jane Birkin-esque twist, all accessories in hand gained cool keychains — cars, candy canes, Halloween pumpkins, dices, dinosaurs, and gingerbread men — and some typical New Yorker ones, from I ❤️ NYC mugs to the State of Liberty souvenir. All very urban, very fun, very demure, and very mindful, Coach proves again to be one of the coolest labels of the moment. 

Anna Sui Resort 2025

For someone who has never been a minimalist, the current season looks promising for Anna Sui. And in Resort 2025, the brand's summer is defined by a whimsy Alice Wonderland flair that meets an edgy-grunge teen. 

In the current times, it seems like the perfect combo. ‘40s dresses, structured jackets, midi-skirts, embroidered cardigans,and tweed sets all cooperated to the label’s retro look. While denim with flowers embroidered, fresh dresses with matching gloves, gothic chokers, corseted denim jacket, tulle blouses, flats , mini skirts, and bows evoke the modernity. Consider it a bit of the two worlds — past and present. 

Blumarine Resort 2025

The first glimpse at Blumarine Resort 2025 — after Walter Chiapponi left the Italian label after his first and only collection for them at Fall 2024 ready-to-wear — had three models in green, cream, yellow beaded boots, princess tiaras, the logo "B" earrings, and spaghetti dresses in pink, white, and beige—all of which had a Miss strip, as seen on Miss Universe and similar competitions. 

The difference is that there was no nationality indicated in the crystal letters — just Belissima (beautiful in English). That’s Miss Blumarine. But she's no competitor. She just wants to have fun. She's just a girl, after all. She wants to wear tiaras, robes à la Victoria's Secret that read Blumarine in the back, and ribbon necklaces — and she can. 

All at once, Miss Blumarine can also bring out a sense of innocence and sultriness. When sheer tulle sets with pom-pom details were paired with oversized blazers embroidered with flowers, or even when a cropped leopard jacket with fur trim was combined with a lingerie top and neon pants, the potent balance was full on stage. And when florals met fur, it could be seen that after the sudden rupture seen in the last show, Blumarine has finally found its roots back. While Blumarine's traditions have always remained subtly — be it in a leopard coat, floral dresses, or knitted sets — this time it all seemed more like an authentic Blumarine. 

Delicate and for beauty's sake, seen in pink sets, gingham looks, sheer dresses, fur coats, Barbie butterfly-like heels, and mini fringes on clothes and accessories, was the lemma for Blumarine's in-house team, who came up with a carefully crafted collection in a turbulent time, with no creative director yet announced. One way or another, be it past or future, be it an in-house team or a creative director, it all falls into the girly Blumarine archetype.