Summer fashion - Carlisle Collection

Summer
fashion
2011
– Summer Stock –
Just what you want for a season when less is
more. Light, airy fabrics. Crisp, cool colors.
Looks to pull together as you like them.
Anytime jackets, any shape pants, little tops,
cute skirts, lots of prints, dresses as easy as tees.
Savvy, chic, trendy. Fiercely individual.
A wardrobe perfect for your
every summer plan.

The
COLOR
Palette
QUINTESSENTIALLY SUMMER.
Crisp and cool with shots of hot.
breeze blue is a light, airy sky, the
perfect partner for white. black and
white trendy as ever in solids, stripes,
dots and florals popped with shades
of lemongrass, a yellow-green that’s
crisper, cleaner, brighter than
chartreuse; carnation pink, the
hottest pink on the spectrum; and
madrid red, our sexiest of primaries.
Easy does it in blacks, whites and
sunwashed earthtones of artichoke,
our summer olive; dijon, our spicy
mustard; desert tan the perfect tan;
and natural a flaxen neutral to
plug-in anywhere, everywhere and
often. Jewel tones are the rich shades
of summer in crystal clear turquoise,
as bright as the sea off Myrtos Beach;
coral reef, a reddish-coral as seen
through sunlit waters; and marigold,
a bright, sunny orange.
1 / Parkside – Quintessentially Summer – THE PERFECT WARDROBE FOR CITY & SHORE.
In a crisp cool palette shot with hot. Stock-up on scads of tops; stacks of skirts; lots of prints; pants pegged
casablanca, wide angel, ankle-cropped gunpowder or short bloom. Work them with anytime jackets: sleek
and suitable cannon in zip-pocketed black silk doupioni; sporty with an edge casablanca in stand-collared,
back-yoked, bellow-pocketed white stretch cotton; summer when it sizzles carnation in front-zipped, elbowpatched
pink laminated linen. The tops this summer flip looks faster than you can say fun and fabulous. Blouses
run the gamut from sunwashed breezeblue faggotting-detailed linen to fresh-washed white blanche maxihoundstooth
jacquard to striking black/white picnic floral sateen with a hot spot of carnation pink. The new
crop of knits are cute, sexy, unexpected and lots of fun. Find a nine-yarn-mix of freshwater metallic breeze
blue abstract stripes; a fully reversible treble black/white jewel-to-V-neck, abstract-to-ruler striped number to
wear inside-out or outside in; a shipshape nod to nautical cottoncandy in bateau-necked, button-shouldered
ribknit carnation/white stripes. The model tees—hardware-trimmed in voltage Madrid red and self-appliquéd
in sweet carnation pink—are absolute musts because they’re bright, breezy and go with everything from cannon
black silk doupioni suiting to angel white rustic linen cropped pants. Prints are super-hot and there’s plenty to
choose from: a cool, breezy zebra animal print tunic; skirts of blue linen penelope watercolored florals and
black/white pop cotton piqué dots; or pull together a short suit with bloom carnation/white piqué florals. The
knockout neon of the season wasabi a lemongrass black-silk-trimmed basketweave two-piece dress you absolutely
have-to-have for its cool fire and total charm.
2 / Traveler – Easy Does It – STYLE THAT TAKES THE SHOW ON THE ROAD.
Packable, beautiful, versatile. Day-to-night, work-to-weekend, pieces that switch looks according to destination
and plan. The over-everything jacket supreme is easy, pretty, altogether perfect in embroidered stone metallic/
black/white glazed linen/cotton. Silk doupioni suiting artichoke—casually chic for everyday or ultra-sophisticated
when called for—in the jacket/skirt/pant silhouettes of the season to partner-up with blacks, whites, naturals and
play down with a cactus cap-sleeve giraffe print top [don’t forget to pick-up artichoke the nailhead-trimmed
croco belt to go-with]. The naturals and blacks are trendy, travel like pros and get you cool on cue: pop a sashy
cobblestone geometric print linen jacket over stealth a little black knit and biscotto slim natural linen pant;
tuck a dijon silk doupioni tab-sleeved blouse into the high waist of rainforest an artichoke/black/dijon cotton
sateen camo print skirt, then mix-and-mingle across the board. Popping up unexpectedly are jewel tones that
surprise with richer shades for summer: turquoise gorgeous dreamgirl in a silk faille dress with cutout florals;
uniquely beautiful turquoise in an embroidered washed linen blouse; anywhere, everywhere oceanwave in
tie-front cardigan twins. Coral in petula a spectacular floral print jacket dress—the topper over easy, the scooped,
skinny-belted sleeveless sheath sculpted with angled tiers. Marigold in marigold the most comfortable stretch
cotton twill sleeveless dress ever—front-zipped, stand-collared, V-necked, copper-belted—calling for nothing
more than a little sandal to take it on the road.