Frederick Anderson Resort 2023

“It feels like so much is happening right now, and I’m way too sensitive to all of it,” Frederick Anderson said during a preview. “I’m definitely feeling the blues, I think we all are, but I’m trying to work through the malaise.” To accomplish this, he leaned into a celebratory mood, one informed by the many custom requests he says he is receiving for weddings. His color palette was built—no surprise—on a range of blues, working in pops through color-blocking, embellishments, and specialty fabrics like a jacquard and tweed. Anderson was at his best here creating volume through drape. The lightness of his touch allowed for silks to embrace the body in a way that looked both soft and modern. “We’re all in a soft moment, looking at looseness in the fit,” he said. “Something for the girl who is not wearing structure the way it was done before.” He used piping and seaming to keep garments close without giving pieces a sense of constriction. This was most successful in a denim halter dress with lavender silk binding, and translated the least well in his tailoring, which, cut traditionally close to the body, felt not as loose or soft as he was going for.