Catherine Malandrino
She’s the ultimate ingenue—the French girl whose particular brand of easy street-chic is impossible to duplicate. Unless, of course, you are a young French girl and you know her style secrets as well as designer Catherine Malandrino. Picking up where her former boss, Diane von Furstenberg, left off in creating a small empire devoted to inspiring fearless young women with daring, playful, female-friendly designs, Malandrino is all about the curves (at the waist and hip), the neckline (exposing just enough shoulder and collarbone), the striking shade that insists you pay attention. This spring, Malandrino allowed the universal nod toward the futuristic shapes to inform her classic, feminine pieces. Amid loads of gauzy neutrals and cool, sensual chiffons, she introduced electric yellow and lipstick red satin dresses. The result: romance with attitude—not unlike the ingenue herself.

Red pleated cotton minidress
by CATHERINE MALANDRINO
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