The Rodarte Spring 2024 RTW collection featured the use of the history of textures and color from Rodarte and celebrated that in a collection about gardens.

The collection offered narrow and elongated silhouettes with silk bias-cut slip dresses which had a 1930s feel. The color palette—bright iris, peony yellow, emerald green, cornflower, and ultramarine, punctuated with black lace appliqués or black velvet bows—made them more readily identifiable as dresses of our current era.

They all belied the technical effort of their construction with their sparkly appeal. The vertical ruffles were pieced together from different colors of silk organza, silk chiffon, silk charmeuse, and silk georgette and were decorated with fabric rosettes.

“Color is something we’re really sensitive to as designers, and I feel like this is part of that, but it’s also something that you don’t realize until you are constructing the dresses,” Kate said. “A lot of people are interested in silhouette first; but I feel like we’re a hundred percent interested in color and texture first, and then it’s about building out the silhouettes.”