Cruise collection

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A cruise collection or resort collection or resort wear sometimes also holiday or travel collection (collection croisière, in French), is an inter-season or pre-season line of ready-to-wear clothing produced by a fashion house or fashion brand in addition to the recurrent biannual seasonal collections — spring/summer and autumn (or fall)/winter — heralded at the fashion shows in New York, London, Paris, and Milan.

Originally meant for wealthy customers or "more seasoned jet-setters going on

Northern hemisphere
. In the high fashion retail landscape, often resort and cruise collections are more commercial expressions of ideas developed in Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer collections.

High fashion

Yves Saint-Laurent presented its first men's cruise collection in 2006 and has offered it every year since.[5]

Across the fashion industry, "Resortwear" has been embraced as a specific product category. Several upstarts like Devereux have created entire brands around relaxed, resort-style athletic motifs.[6] Resort wear is growing in popularity across the globe, especially in tourist destinations like Dubai, Costa Rica and the Greek Islands. It has become a cross-cultural style that signifies relaxation, affluence, and appreciation of nature which displays a sense of style to the wearer.[7]

From walking shorts,

dinner jackets for men, resort wear is unique in its design and function.[citation needed] Resort wear is generally constructed with materials are easy to pack, lightweight, and breathable, such as cotton, silk, denim, linen, rayon, and poplin. It is often inspired by sailor and yachting
themes, tropical motifs, mediterranean motifs, and classic Hawaiian prints of palm trees and hula girls. Often, the ensembles are accessorized with open toed shoes, large sunglasses, and wide brim hats.

Resort wear also encompasses swimsuits and bathing suit cover ups, with brands like KIINI

Penang, Malaysia , BIASA from Bali, Psylo from Ko Samui, and Villebrequin from Saint Tropez
will emerge from the very locations that resort wear is designed for and is worn year-round.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Get your vacation wardrobe shipshape, Rod Stafford Hagwood, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, June 2, 2008
  2. ^ Fashion: The Shorts and Longs of Resort Wear, Bernadine Morris, The New York Times, June 27, 1989
  3. ^ No winter in fashion climate, Edward Helmore, The Sydney Morning Herald, June 26, 2008
  4. ^ "CHANEL CRUISE 2023/24". The Fashion Enthusiast. 11 May 2023.
  5. ^ First resort Archived 2008-06-17 at the Wayback Machine, Staff, men.style.com, November 16, 2006
  6. ^ Devereux
  7. ^ "What Is Resort Wear? (with pictures)". Beauty Answered. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
  8. ^ Banerji, Malini (June 17, 2015). "5 resort wear labels to know now". Elle India. Retrieved February 1, 2020.