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Resort is actually a quite a strange season, between mid November through January/early February which traditionally catered to the rich people heading to mysterious islands and living out their adventurous fantasies when the rest of us (working fellows) had to schlep through snow, rain, sleet and wind. Resort has evolved to a season of basically season-less haute couture clothes, maintaining a cheery and bright color palette, yet tends to be clothing which will bridge different seasons and be worn throughout the whole year. Below are Little Miss Couture’s favorite resort 2012 dresses. And which one is your favorite? Sound of in the comments below!

Christian Dior

Considering the fact that Resort is the line which lasts longest on High Street store shelves, Christian Dior’s latest managed a clean, clear arc from casual urban to vacation chic. The former included neutrals made graphic with structured silhouettes and geometric banding, including the classic Bar jacket combined with a short pleated skirt, or the beige & black coat in double faced wool. The latter was spiced up by a caftan in cobalt blue chiffon, with a bodice decorated with embroidery. The blue, as well as coral, enabled create a Sixties flavor. And the 1960s flavor in gamine drop waist dress with ruffled hems is made a little bit unusual with bands of sequins so tiny they seemed pretty much like liquid metal. While this dress believable and coherent in a modern sense, it does not scream “Christian Dior” in any sense. Nonetheless, it shows a grasp of the type of couture dresses women have to and love to wear. Christian Dior

Salvatore Ferragamo

The Salvatore Ferragamo Resort 2012 line perfectly blended glamour and sophistication into daywear with fringe dresses and cashmere swears in gold. And one floor length white dress really caught my eye (and my heart). I especially like the way the Massimiliano Giornetti layered the fabric. Giornetti explained that he was ‘dreaming about the first work of Salvatore Ferragamo,’ who, as he explained, started his career in LA, dressing the celebs of his day. Salvatore Ferragamo

Chloé

The Chloé Resort 2012 Collection was a season less about fresh designs and more about redesigning brand’s classics. Fortunately for the designer team, the 70s are still in the air. The wide leg flare pants we have been seeing on the brand’s Paris runway for the last few seasons were back, in basically everything from cotton sweat-suit fabric and black sequins all the way to denim chambray. Chloé

BCBG Max Azria

The 21-one-year-old Chanel Iman Robinson showed up at CFDA Fashion Awards on the arm of famous French fashion designer of Tunisian descent Lubov Azria and wore a dress from the designer’s Resort 2012 Line for BCBG Max Azria. Of course, she could make everything look sexy; however, the dress itself – an aqua number with peek-a-boo shoulders, high slit and deep keyhole neckline – stood out on its own. The designer looked to 1970s muses such as Margaux Hemingway and Marisa Berenson for inspiration, and that was quite evident in the free flowing silhouettes. However Azria managed to keep it modern. BCBG Max Azria

Nina Ricci

Ocean, waves, surf – is there a single fashion designer the 2012 resort season who has not felt the siren-like call of the ocean, mentally astride a Teahupoo surfboard in their studios, daydreaming of break and the roll of the ocean beneath their board? Well, there is – Peter Copping @ Nina Ricci. The designer instead headed to a completely different vision of the coastline. This haute couture dress is a perfect example of the designer’s vision. Nina Ricci