“We’ve got a new customer profile,” Rachel Comey said at the top of a discussion of her new resort collection. “Commencement speakers. We had two in one day in one of the stores.” Comey prides herself on being a designer who pays attention to the real world scenarios where clients wear her clothes. For example, this is not the place for bloomers, which are one of the more preposterous trends this resort season has served up. But that’s not to say that Comey doesn’t know to let loose. She put a playful black pantsuit trimmed with brown faux fur for holiday parties in the lineup as well as “little bouncy hostess pajama sets” for entertaining from home.
The commencement speakers, meanwhile, may like the look of a red knit button-down shirt that wears like a jacket and could stand in for one on a warm June day when worn with a long skirt with gentle pleats in the same cheery shade. A sleeveless black dress with useful slant pockets at the hips could also meet the moment.
Comey has made a practice of casting women spanning a range of ages on her runways and lookbooks. Repping for Gen Z this season is Gisele Zelauy, a Brazilian like Bundchen, but one who emerged a good decade and a half earlier in the 1980s. According to Models.com, Zelauy makes her home in Honolulu now, but she exudes an authentic New York cool in these clothes, in particular in a hooded shearling jacket and track pants with sporty stripes down the sides.
