Sally Lapointe's Vogue 2020 RUNWAY collection.

Sally Lapointe gorgeous emerald green satin blend blouse with a gold ornament detailed shoulder..New without Tags. Sally LaPointe’s Resort 2020 moodboard was covered in 100-year-old photographs of women in silk pajamas. It was back in the 1920s that pajama dressing first became a trend for women, though they weren’t wearing them to bed: The silky separates were an early example of “borrowed from the boys” style, co-opted from men’s sleepwear and cleverly reinterpreted as comfortable day clothes. At a time when most women didn’t wear pants in public at all, it was considered pretty gutsy to wear a drapey silk PJ pant during the day. Coco Chanel famously wore them on the beach, referring to them as “yachting pants.” LaPointe was instantly drawn to that backstory, and as a designer who strives to combine luxury and comfort in her collections, she saw an opportunity to put a new twist on head-to-toe silk dressing. Don’t expect to see piped button-downs and kitschy prints. LaPointe’s interpretations were reliably haute, comprised of double-faced satin blouses with built-in scarves, matching pants or floor-grazing skirts, and evening sets hand-embroidered with sequins. She peppered in a few belted pants in a substantial, buttery linen for a bit of contrast, as well as her now-signature cropped knits, which came in a new cashmere-silk blend (which sells at a friendlier price point sans her usual fur trim). She joked that plenty of women really will wear this stuff on the beach lik