Tory Burch is a dog lover, and both Chicken and Slim, her favourite miniature poodles, have their very own Instagram accounts. However, cats and bunnies are given the opportunity to shine in the limelight thanks to her new resort collection. Burch is a fan of the animal portraits that the German artist Walter Schels, who is 87 years old, does, and he approached Schels about participating in the project. The snapshot of the cat, which shows the animal’s eyes and jaws wide open, seems to express something about the rapid pace of our current day.

Burch is a woman who is always on the go, which may be one of the reasons why she has been gravitating toward stretch materials and slender, almost athletic silhouettes as of late. At her spring show in September of last year, she debuted a modular idea that combined a stretch top and tube skirt with capri-length leggings, or that paired a stretch top with a part-opaque, part-sheer skirt. The colour-blocking of previous outfits has been re-created in a pair of dresses that are part of the resort collection. These dresses have the same significant effect as the original looks, but they come in an all-in-one silhouette that couldn’t be simpler to wear. The deep-v sweaters paired with transparent turtleneck dickeys here accomplish the same thing: They provide the appearance of layers while just requiring a single piece of clothing. (These, in contrast to conventional dickeys, do not have removable parts.)

“I wanted clean lines,” Burch stated during an appointment in the showroom. That translated to aerodynamic jersey shirts and thin skirts presented in monochrome white or navy blue, accentuated solely by a studded hip-slung belt, or to a leather handkerchief top decorated with more of those silver studs combined with mannish, straight-cut slacks. Both looks were shown in monochrome white or navy blue. The tailoring is quite simple, and there is no visible hardware anywhere on the garment.

A trio of one-of-a-kind gowns that draw their inspiration from ballerina tutus send the message that little is more when it comes to sensuality. They do not adhere to the body but rather give the impression that they are floating on top of it since the bodice is made of stretch tulle and the skirt is draped from curved underwire. Burch appeared to be returning to a theme that she has been emphasising for the past couple of years, namely, that for this designer, comfort and elegance are inexorably connected. She paired them with skimmer flats to make her point.

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