Tibi Resort 2027

Reported by Vogue.

Amy Smilovic doesn't do resort season the way everyone else does. While other designers treat the collection as a commercial placeholder, the Tibi founder uses it as the brand's sharpest moment of self-definition. "This is the time of year where we really, really double down hard on who we are," she said — and Resort 2027 makes that case convincingly.

According to Vogue, the collection opens on familiar Tibi terrain — elevated, practical, quietly funny — before pushing further than usual. A flannel anorak hides a modular belt in its pocket. A weatherproof trench offers belt loops at both the waist and hip, so the wearer can cinch it high or drop it low depending on the mood. Candy-colored nylon peplums styled after the hem of a windbreaker layered over everything from basic tees to maxi skirts. The thinking is rigorous and the execution is light. That balance is Smilovic's whole thing.

Mistakes, DMs, and Milton Avery

The season's palette — warm brown, deep emerald, and an almost aggressive chartreuse — didn't come from trend forecasters. It came from a customer DM. A Tibi shopper saw the work of American modernist painter Milton Avery at a museum, thought of Smilovic, and sent it over. "I went down a rabbit hole, and she was right. I love the colors." That kind of open-source inspiration — no gatekeeping, no hierarchy — is embedded in how Smilovic works. The same instinct extends to production: when a factory error produced an ultra-wide, triangular peep-toe silhouette, she kept it. "It's nice and gross. It's unsettling," she said. At Tibi, wrong is often exactly right.

The clothing follows the same logic. Prints need to feel, in her words, "a little icky, a little textural" — see: the tracksuit in burgundy floral silk jacquard, which reads simultaneously athletic and wrong in the best way. A belt with three oversized gold buckles turns up repeatedly, doing what good accessories do: making the simple feel considered without trying too hard. None of it chases what's trending. "More of the why behind the clothing rather than just what," Smilovic said, "and certainly not what trends."

Resort 2027 is a reminder that the most interesting fashion is made by designers who trust their customers, follow unexpected rabbit holes, and refuse to treat a mistake as something to hide.

Read the original at Vogue.