Laura Vassar and Kris Brock continue to churn out luxurious, thoughtful collections at Brock, this season fusing their brand of elegant Nineties minimalism with a subtle prairie vibe. The duo worked a floral oleander print, done in pink and neutral colorways, throughout their romantic looks — most notably on a lightweight topcoat with soft drop shoulders and a chic, cropped button-down blouse with balloon sleeves.
Vassar and Brock have a knack for making typically high-maintenance silhouettes — think fully corseted bustiers paired with high-waisted full pleated skirts — feel unfussy and understated, due in large part to their fine Italian fabrics, which for resort included silk cottons, twills and linens. For evening, they offered spaghetti-strap slipdresses and skirts in floral metallic jacquard embellished with metal beads and pearls.
The brand continues to expand its denim selection — this season introducing stretch selvage and low-rise flares — as well as its furs, offered here in a beaver jacket and a long, navy mink coat with a wrap belt. Collaborating again with George Esquivel, Vassar and Brock designed high-knee boots in pale blue suede and dark brown alligator, adding a touch of toughness to the clothing’s soft femininity.
![Carine Roitfeld is letting a new generation take the reins of the magazine she founded. Mostly.
Like the new logo for the biannual CR Fashion Book print magazine Roitfeld founded in 2012 after leaving French Vogue and has been the lead editor and stylist of since — now a much smaller, more refined “CR” that hovers in the top left corner after being a nearly cover-size signature — Roitfeld is reducing her role, and will now oversee editorial after years of leading it.
Vague as that description may be, the fact is Roitfeld doesn’t actually have a new title and there is no one replacing her as editor. But she will be doing far less styling of shoots (she only did one for the upcoming spring/summer issue; before she did all of them) and curation of magazine editorial going forward. Instead, Roitfeld will focus more on other projects, like collaborations and work for a growing roster of clients for her creative studio and brand consultancy CR Studio. There’s Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld and Tom Ford, of course, but also a recent campaign for Jordache, which Roitfeld handled from beginning to end. "I don’t know what I now want to be called,” she said recently, having just arrived in New York for fashion week from Paris. “I don’t have a desk [at the office] either. I had one a while ago but I didn’t like it. I just sit at any table with a free chair. I don’t want a door, ‘Oh, knock before entering.’ That’s not me.” Report: Kali Hays
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