Lafayette 148 New York Resort 2027
Lafayette 148 New York Resort 2027 collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.
Reported by Vogue.
New Mexico isn't just a destination — it's a state of mind. For Resort 2027, Lafayette 148 New York designer Emily Smith turned her gaze from Manhattan to the high desert, drawing inspiration from the women artists who traded urban convention for wide-open landscapes. Think Dorothy Brett and Mabel Dodge Luhan: painters and patrons who packed up their wardrobes and rebuilt them around the land they lived on.
"They basically left the convention of New York City dress and stripped back all their clothes down to necessity, only because they were dressing for the land and for themselves," Smith explained, according to Vogue. "Isn't that what minimalism is all about?" It's a compelling reframe — not minimalism as deprivation, but as intention.
West of Everything
The collection swaps Lafayette 148's signature polished neutrals for something warmer and more alive. A fringed leather top steps in where a boxy jacket once stood. A paisley bandana-print dress with a cinched, pleated silhouette does what a solid-color equivalent used to do — only with more personality. The palette follows suit: Sedona clay, dusty blue, and a burnt orange that sits somewhere between a desert sunset and the sand beneath it. None of this reads as costume. It reads as confidence — the kind you develop when you stop dressing for the room and start dressing for yourself.
What makes the collection land, though, is what Smith didn't do. There's no Canadian tuxedo moment, no literal rodeo. Denim doesn't show up at all — instead, a flecked wool mimics its texture without surrendering the brand's refined sensibility. Looser silhouettes are grounded with leather trim, snap buttons, and horn finishes. The standout piece: a speckled tan cowhide jacket that could move seamlessly from a Santa Fe gallery opening to a dinner in the West Village. It's Western-adjacent without being Western-derivative.
Last season, Lafayette 148 celebrated 30 years of dressing the New York woman. This season, it's asking what happens when she leaves. The answer, it turns out, is that she takes her taste with her — and comes back with better clothes.
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