For spring Rosetta Getty was thinking pragmatically about the things she loves to wear and the way she loves to wear them, and as such, her collection was injected with a real sense of ease. She brought back a favorite caftan from last summer, in a beautiful striped brown fabric and with matching pants so she could continue wearing her favorite style once the weather cools down. She also reintroduced a shirtdress with a wrap-skirt bottom from her very first collections, this time in a blue and orange plaid, and paired it with the very same striped pants. It had a ’90s, youthful kind of vibe. “I love all the different stripes and the plaids together, it’s like they actually go to together, but they don’t,” she said at a recent appointment in her Tribeca showroom. In fact, Getty was really animated by things that “didn’t match” she said, like mixing turquoise and baby blue and butter yellow in one look; or her marled knit dresses and tops with contrasting stripes of solid black and white.
Instead of her usual granny square crochet pieces, she wove a silver metallic yarn in her classic hand-crochet style and made a very elegant maxi dress. “We could do this for evening,” she posited. “We’ve always done crochet but we’d never done it in such a simple way—in fact it’s a little heavy.” It was indeed weighty, but that’s what made it into something evening appropriate. Elsewhere, it was the lightness of a cotton dress with a balloon hem, or the thinnest, softest, matching knit separates that stood out. “This season I feel like everything worked,” Getty said. “Sometimes it feels like we have to do a lot to meet certain demands, but this time I feel like we just did what we wanted and it worked, which is always great!”