Models Aleya Ali, Tami Williams and Valerie Scherzinger front Oscar de la Renta’s Pre-Spring/Resort Lookbook, styled by Alex White. Emmanuel Sanchez Monsalve captures the new collection by designers Frenando Garcia and Laura Kim Images from Oscar de la Renta via Vogue.com.

The new collection is "‘quintessential’ describes their approach to distilling exactly what the Oscar de la Renta brand stands for in a post-COVID world, explain long-time life and work partners Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia .

“Everybody’s spending will be more frugal,” Garcia explained. “Whatever we do, it has to make sense for our business.” That goes for fashion shows—the designers will be sitting out NYFW in favor of a smaller presentation later in the season.

Oscar de la Renta addresses this new attitude in old-school, polished dressing with its 2020/2021 Resort Collection.

Oscar de la Renta is long known for its night glamour, red carpet gala dresses. The Resort 2021 collection reboots that OdlR brand DNA, with clothes created for home entertaining. Caftans make a comeback, with a nod to 1960s California-style dreaming.

Originating in ancient times in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), the caftan is very much at home in Palm Springs. As Hollywood Reporter wrote in August: “Unusually slow in the summer — due to the blistering heat — the short-term housing market in the Coachella Valley has been unusually busy this year as Angelenos seek a change of scenery.”

Palm Springs is typically a sleepy place in the summer, where the temperature recently hit 119 degrees. Now homes like the magnificently restored ‘Wave House’ in Palm Desert are rented to sedate family or groups of close friends looking to escape. “Even with the heat,” Mark Dubas of Palm Springs Cool Rentals told THR, “I think they just want a place to feel safe and secure and cook their meals and just be in self-contained place with a pool.”