Creative director Deborah Lloyd matched the walls at the brand's presentation Friday in a black dress adorned with French script reading "Toutes les filles sont folles," or "All the girls are crazy."
She perched her models on columns in a downtown space, inspired by gardens near the Palais-Royal in Paris and the columns in its famous courtyard, the cour d'honneur. "I love it there," she said. "The last time I was there, all these cute girls were being statues on columns."
Lloyd took over the company after Kate Spade was bought out in 2006. Spade had already extended her namesake line of bags to shoes, paper products and eyewear, among other things. Lloyd is credited with pushing the brand into fashion apparel while staying true to the company's roots.
"We have amazing DNA and a crisp clean sensibility with a hit of whimsy and the use of color and prints," she said. "There's definitely a French, flirtatious feeling to this collection," Lloyd said.
She went oh so French with a cobalt blue button-up swing coat adorned with a large matching bow at the neck, and a column skirt with large dots in two shades of blue and a girlie bow at the waist.
Lloyd carried a dreamy, watercolor flower pattern from a full, pleated jumper into tops and cardigans. Her "joie de vivre" embracing Paris and the fashionable women who live there also showed up in a pattern adorned with colored drawings of the women themselves, including one holding a lit cigarette.
Sacre bleu!
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