Monse Resort 2025
There are two stories running through Monseās resort collection. The first half alluded to the āvacationā aspect of resort collections. This one was inspired by Laura Kim and Fernando Garciaās travels to a villa in Tuscany, plus ā1970s horse posters, and this painting from the 1800s of a sunset in Antarctica.ā They fed those images into an AI to create ombrĆ© color palettes, and perhaps more excitingly, ombrĆ© color palettes made up of printsālook closely and you can see a horse or a tree hidden on a silk button down shirt and a matching handkerchief hem with a thick leather waistband; or a lonely iceberg floating at the bottom of a sheer skirt the color of an orange sky. A classic khaki trench with crochet panels in shades of green, yellow, orange, and red was one of the highlights of the collectionāinspired by their favored ombrĆ© technique, but interpreted differently.
The second half of the collection was all about getting back to business. āSince Covid weāve been staying away from tailoring a little bit because people stopped buying suit jackets, but we began getting back into it last fall,ā GarcĆa said. āThatās how we started our brand; they were our bread and butter.ā The designers love to play with unexpected collar placements on their jackets: wrapping them across the chest on an elongated vest, left extra long and only half-attached in the manner of secretary blouse ties on a gray jacket, or having one side of the collar jut out at an angle on a double-breasted wool herringbone jacket. Elsewhere, there were other hybrid pieces, like a three-in-one knit twinset or a coat built to look like a classic navy peacoat layered over a quilted gray blanket.
