Dion Lee Resort 2016 is romantic, poetic if we can say it, light but technically innovative.
Dion Lee Resort 2016 is romantic, poetic if we can say it, light but technically innovative. There is something similar in the Resort 2016 collection of Australian designer Dion Lee. The designs included look like a revised and simpler version of some of Lee’s garments from his Autumn/Winter 2015-16 collection, recreated in a palette comprising graphic black and white, pale blue, and orange. But the pieces here that stayed with you were the ones that conjured a mood, an atmosphere.
The main inspiration for the Resort collection was the horizon, but, through his horizontal perforations around the hemlines (at times forming rigid ruffles on skirts), Lee added some interesting dynamic variation to a motif that may have otherwise been rather boring. By chance or not, some of the looks is actually look similar with the pictures of Messe Basel New Hall (designed by Herzog & De Meuron Architects) when taken by Hufton + Crow during certain times of the day when the light kisses the white surface of the building giving it a soft blue edge and a blue suede dress and separates in this collection. Rather than being merely decorative means, Lee play with light and shadows in intriguing ways, create transparency and illusion looks like forming sort of a vortex.
We believe in this collection women will be imagine themselves—generically—in those kinds of clothes. Lee cleverly combines a simple idea; the lightness theme, relaxing tailoring with technical prowess and offerings a delicate sense a movement. The engineering of those garments was brilliant, to be sure. It’s well nigh impossible to avoid this alluring collection. (Text Teuku Ajie)