Natalie Martin and Lulu de Kwiatkowski NM x Lulu DK Assortment is Colour-Soaked Resortwear at Its Greatest

Los Angeles trend designer Natalie Martin and Bahamas-based textile designer Lulu de Kwiatkowski have collaborated on a sun-soaked clothes assortment simply in time for spring break travels.

NM x Lulu DK brings de Kwiatkowski’s Caribbean-inspired textiles to graphic seaglass stripe clothes, sheer shirts, sarongs, caftans, shorts and quilted vests in cotton, silk and chiffon, accessible starting Sunday on Martin’s web site and at choose retailers from $150 to $498.

Aussie transplant Martin began her label in 2011, impressed by childhood holidays in Bali. Her breezy Balinese boho block print Fiore maxidresses, Iris peasant tops and drawstring Jasper shorts are the unofficial uniform of ease in Los Angeles and past, with Gwyneth Paltrow, Busy Philipps, Rihanna, January Jones, Kristen Bell and plenty of extra in her fan membership.

A New York native and graduate of Parsons the New College of Design, de Kwiatkowski is understood for her colourful materials, kaleidoscopic collages and work, and for bringing her bohemian life-style to interiors and to her 2008 visible diary, “Lulu.”

She and Martin met when de Kwiatkowski lived in Los Angeles within the early 2000s they usually grew to become quick associates.

“We each sort of watched one another develop in our years in L.A. and there’s at all times been a mutual love for coloration and laid-back model that appears fairly easy,” mentioned de Kwiatkowski, zooming in from her house within the Bahamas with Martin becoming a member of from L.A.

“Within the Bahamas, you simply need to throw issues on shortly and look nice and presentable. And I put on plenty of Natalie’s issues in a extremely informal approach. However my mother-in-law, who’s 93 and nonetheless lovely, tall and chic, places on jewellery with them and appears sort of dressed up.…It’s very nice to have a seaside costume that may also be a night costume.”

“Her use of coloration particularly, and colours you wouldn’t consider collectively, in her work, in her prints, and even within the shell work now, it’s simply unbelievable,” mentioned Martin. “The prints we ended up utilizing actually spoke to me…geometric watercolors that just about seem like a stained-glass window or sea glass.”

“It’s virtually like a graphic David Hicks idea, or sailboats I’d see as a baby rising up in Quogue within the Seventies….I additionally grew up sporting Lacoste shirts with thick stripes. So all that blended with my mother’s huge floral wallpapers and patterns all over the place grew to become who I used to be,” mentioned de Kwiatkowski.

“I needed the colours to be as shut as attainable to the unique…they usually’ve received an actual gradient and watercolor impact to them,” mentioned Martin. “It was tough, however I feel we received actually shut, and I’m actually proud of the outcomes.”