Olivier Rousteing went to a resort
while he was thinking about designing Balmain resort—Miami’s South
Beach. He returned to Paris with a head full of Art Deco district
architecture, sunbaked pastels, black-and-white pool tiles, palm trees,
diners, Cadillacs, and indelible memories of “talking in clubs for hours
to so many incredible people from Cuba and Puerto Rico, who were all,
like me, mixed race.” Needless to say, he had the greatest time—and
returned to the studio intent on making “a happy, summery collection”
directly influenced by every detail of his holiday: the energy, the
optimism, the color, right down to the raffia and wickerwork café beach
chairs he’d lolled on all those long, hot Miami nights last winter.
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