Resort Fashion : Style in Sun-Drenched Climates

Resort Fashion takes the reader on an-around-the-world vacation through jaw-dropping resort locations and timeless fashions. The book is divided into a dozen chapters, each covering a particular style of resort clothing (including bathing suits, the resort print, the sailor stripe, and playclothes). Each chapter celebrates the evolution from its origins to present day, often shown by the icons who wore them, like Halle Berry sporting the bikini forty years after Catherine Deneuve. Resort Fashion also shows the significant impact that the world's most famous designers have had on resort wear, such as Pucci, Poiret, Schiaparelli, and, of course, Chanel "who single handedly relaxed women's clothing beginning with her very first design, the Deauville cardigan." Also included are pictures of the relaxing class through the ages from the Murphy's to the Kennedy's and Windsor's to Sean Combs and Pharrell Williams.

Caroline Rennolds Milbank is a fashion historian and the author of the books Couture, New York Fashion, and The Couture Accessory. She has contributed essays to the Costume Institute catalogues Poiret and Chanel, and has been a costume curator for exhibitions at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Clark Art Institute.

Amy Fine Collins is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair, covering culture, style, and fashion. She was previously the style editor at Harper’s Bazaar and House & Garden, an art historian at Columbia University, and is also the author of American Impressionism, Hair Style, Simple Isn’t Easy, and The God of Driving.