Costello Tagliapietra: Wrap stars

Some dresses are gathered down the front, others to the side, and one olive cowl dress is draped and seamed diagonally.  In what seems a youthful, eclectic twist, many of the pieces appear a tad off-kilter — and delightfully so, whether it’s a pale violet dress with long asymmetrical hem, or a “vermillion side drape dress” that has a halter-like front and seems pulled to one side. 

The result is a line where most of the dresses flow and look great in motion, especially given the healthy dose of vivid prints — swirly, Impressionist mixes of sunset orange and coral, Mayan and Sistine blue, vermilion and pink. 

Those prints are mighty green, too — as in eco-friendly, produced via AirDye technology, which is said to require considerably less water and produce a lot less greenhouse gases than traditional dye jobs.  The boys have used this eco-dyeing before, remaining committed to fashion that’s both stylish … and sound.