New York - Now that Resort is a fully-fledged season of its own, with numerous designers staging special presentations or runway shows to give the between-season collection a stage of its own (even Paris-based Christian Dior brought their show to New York for the second year in a row), designers have followed suit with fully-fledged collections to match.
Oscar de la Renta's Resort 2009 collection may take the prize for most extensive of them all, presenting a dizzying array of looks - 66 in total - ensuring that none of his clients will be caught wearing the same thing.
The collection was a typically breathtaking walk through bohemia as viewed through a lens of Upper East Side refinement, meaning batik prints and graphic brushstroke-like patterns were married with a lady-like sensibility - full, feminine skirts, for example, at the natural waist, or paired with a no-nonsense embroidered sweater.
The new wide leg pant was also well represented here in wool silk, in rich hues of ochre, coral, emerald and cocoa, which formed the basis of de la Renta's daywear palette for Resort, appearing elsewhere from skirts to silk bouses to simple sheath dresses.
For evening, Oscar de la Renta featured lace - thanks to Prada, it's the fabric that is on everyone's fall wish-list - and the kinds of delicately ruffled organza dresses that the designer is so celebrated for. | 
