New York - RTW SS13 - 10 Crosby Derek Lam

City: New York
Season: Ready-To-Wear, Spring/Summer 2013
Show: 10 Crosby Derek Lam

Derek Lam’s diffusion line, 10 Crosby, has gone from strength to strength over the past few seasons, with the likes of Kristen Stewart wearing his pieces to red carpet photocalls across the globe. While his past collections have been modelled by Belgium’s finest, Hanne Gaby Odiele, and other atypical, too cool for school beauties such as Sara Blomqvist, for Spring/Summer 2013 he has enlisted Emily Weiss, power-blogger and founder of my favourite beauty website, Into the Gloss. Though not a model in the strictest sense Weiss is every bit as photogenic and is famed in fashion circles for her inherent sense of style; needless to say, Lam chose his subject wisely. As for the pieces themselves, there is something to suit every spring sensibility, with monogram patterns and reptilian prints featuring heavily. For me the standout look is a cobalt blue trouser suit, unadorned and exquisitely cut, offset to perfection by Emily’s ‘holiday in Martha’s Vineyard’ tan. A hit.

This piece was originally published on alisonlaurabell.tumblr.com in September 2012.