Monthly Archives: May 2022

……….Being a home owner isn’t easy….especially when you own a wooden home on the water!!!…A house on the water comes with its’ own special problems……It’s ALWAYS SOMETHING!!!! After Super Storm Sandy, 10 years ago, I had to put new fences up. I wanted to replace the wooden fences with vinyl, but Jac, ever the purist, wouldn’t hear of it….so all new wooden fences replaced the old wooden fences…..Now, ten years later the wood had rotted out, and with the last storm the damage to them was bad. They once again needed to be replaced! However, Jac isn’t here to argue with me…..so I had them all replaced with beautiful vinyl fences. The fences along the drive way, the fences in the back yard between my house and my neighbors, the three gates, and the two small picket like fences and two more gates that lead to the water at the end of the brick path, have all been replaced. These two smaller fences create a little pen off the family room that I can let Samantha out into at night. I can still get from the back yard to the water with the two gates….I am very pleased with the way they turned out even though they were very costly…..At least I don’t have to worry about them rotting out, or painting the wooden ones, or being replaced ever again while I’m still living here…………I think Jac would have liked the way they looked too…….after she got over the fact that they weren’t wood!

…………..I was sitting at my computer, lost in my own thoughts, when I suddenly looked up to see the magnificent Cherry trees in full blossom…..There are rows of them lining my brick walkway that lead to the lawn and the water beyond…….The saying….”gather ye rosebuds while ye may” was never more true. Soon they will all be gone, and I will have to wait another year, God willing………..to LOOK UP again.

………………..For the NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY MAGAZINE…….Carrie Donovan came in to preview the Resort 1992 collection. She took many photos behind the scenes in my studio before the actual show, and these were the photos she published…..On the left a sketch of the silk Purple halter dress and accessories…..The center photo shows Jac trying on the Purple silk halter dress for the final fitting [LOOK AT THOSE LEGS!!!], and me working with her on the final looks for the show. This is the dress Jasmeen is wearing in the Look Book….. At  right….the “Wizard” as Carrie called me working in the studio, and a close up of a custom multi color stone bracelet for the collection….This was always the most EXICTING TIME just before the show…..All of the clothes were finished or in their finishing stages….all of the shoes came in from Italy, and all of the jewelry and accessories arrived at the studio….It was all coming together. All of the puzzle pieces were fitting together, and now it was PLAY PLAY PLAY TIME putting it all together…..It was always such a wonderful acknowledgment to get the nod of approval from a pro like Carrie……….This marks…..THE END………of the 1992 Anne Klein Resort Retrospective presentation…..I hope you have enjoyed this look back as much as I have had showing it to you.

……………..Depending on where you were going for your resort vacation a fabulous silk dress may have been just what you needed for evenings out to dinner, clubs and casinos. Some resorts are extremely casual…..but others are dressy where it is fun to see how beautiful women are turned out in the evening, and men look handsome in their resort finery. Jac and I always went to resorts where dressing for dinner was expected…..I always brought white and natural linen for evenings out……so whatever Jac chose to wear she would stand out….that wasn’t hard for her…..The two silk dresses in VIOLET and PURPLE are both somewhat  bare, but worked on many body types. The violet scoop neck with the empire top and pleated bottom is on Christie, and the purple halter top dress with the invert pleats and circular skirt is on Jasmeen…….The tops on both dresses were double silk to finish them off beautifully. They were perfect dance dresses for those tropical nights…………Strappy high heel sandals were perfect to swirl in.