I know this is the third new collection I’ve posted in a row, but I just got a hold of these lookbook photos from Wren’s spring collection and I had to post it right away because, 1. it might be my favorite spring collection yet this year, 2. Wren is one of my favorite labels and their spring collections are always their best, and 3. I’m still sick, it’s still cold here, and this whole lookbook is a breath of California fresh air.  Seriously, wearing one of these sun dresses during the spring at, say, Hearst Castle, is my idea of heaven.

This collection was inspired by the ’50s and ’60s, and films from that era like “The Last Picture Show.”  I can definitely see vintage influences, but one of my favorite things about Melissa Coker’s designs for Wren is that they never go the direction of vintage pastiche, or that dreaded word, retro.  There are nods to the past in some of the fabrics and the shapes, but everything looks modern and never too cutesy.  I can see a bunch of dresses already that will go on my spring sale-stalking list; that blue one on the top right will probably replace winter’s Leith dress as my Wren dream dress.

Photos:  Thomas Whiteside;  Stylist: Susan Joy;  Hair: Amy Farid;   Makeup: Suz Gerstein.

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