Kallmeyer Resort 2024
It’s well documented that Daniella Kallmeyer makes an amazing suit. Seasonless, luxe fabrics with a touch of sensual ease are key to her take on tailored clothing, which put her on the map. But also part of her design ethos are special hero pieces. Things other may think you have stealthily taken from your mother’s closet with a one-of-a-kind feeling. “Kallmeyer vintage,” the designer said, with a sheepish laugh.
Resort sees her muse on these other parts of a wardrobe through the lens of Georgia O’Keefe in New Mexico, and Stevie Nicks in Phoenix: powerful women in the American Southwest. Think leather, cashmere, a few evening takes and standout coats in desert hued neutrals.
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Kallmeyer always starts her season by refabricating her bestsellers, like a shirtdress now in a poplin cotton, making for a fresh take on a classic, so “the customer who has that already isn’t like, ‘Oh, I have that just in a different color.’ It’s like totally new,” she explained. Cashmere polos come long sleeved, along with sumptuous knit pieces; throw it all in her canvas tote for a weekend away.
Her denim offering punctuated the theme: light wash, vintage details, mannish fits, the kind of piece you spend a day at a flea market looking for. Kallmeyer has it. In fact, denim is big business for her, promoting waitlists at her downtown store. The key to her success is her subtle twists on pieces that easily pair together, “a modular wardrobe,” she calls it. Yes, there are new blazers and pants, too, all part of the same design language.
While fashion has been obsessing over quiet luxury, Kallmeyer has been confidently crafting her own lane of luxurious wardrobing for seasons, with standout pieces that her customer cannot take out of rotation. “We are really filling in this wardrobe that we believe the customer needs and then doing things that are so quiet and simple, because now we have the community, we have the confidence,” she said. Kallmeyer fans, unite.
Launch Gallery: Kallmeyer Resort 2024
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