This Is How Fashion Girls Wear Maxi Dresses

If you're not yet familiar with designer Rosie Assoulin, we're here to dutifully fill you in. Assoulin launched her namesake label in 2014, winning a CFDA award for womenswear just a year later. And fashion insiders, street style stars, and celebrities quickly took to the modern, feminine pieces and their acute attention to detail.

For the designer's S/S 17 collection, which she debuted yesterday at NYFW, Assoulin again proved her ability to create wearable versions of romantic fantasy. This was best displayed in her series of maxi dresses, each of which was styled in a street style–worthy way, whether it be by layering it over a pair of pants, cinching it at the waist with a ribbon or belt, or accessorizing it to a T. Speaking of which, there was one standout accessory in particular worn by several of the models. Rosie Assoulin and luxury eyewear brand Morgenthal Frederics collaborated on a collection of colorful geometric sunglasses (available for purchase in February 2017) that perfectly complemented the upcoming season's feminine designs. They're bold yet subtle, just like Assoulin's clothing. 

Get a close-up look at the two sunglasses styles below, along with every dreamy look from the S/S 17 collection!

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Rosie Assoulin x Morgenthal Frederics Demolition Man Sunglasses

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Rosie Assoulin x Morgenthal Frederics On the Boardwalk sunglasses

Check out the S/S 17 collection below!

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Shop Rosie Assoulin's latest collection here.

Allyson Payer
Senior Editor

Allyson is a senior editor for Who What Wear. She joined the company in 2014 as co-founder Katherine Power's executive assistant and over the years has written hundreds of stories for Who What Wear. Prior to her career in fashion, Allyson worked in the entertainment industry at companies such as Sony Pictures Television. Allyson is now based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds a BFA in theater. Her path to fashion may not have been linear, but based on the number of fashion magazines she collected as a child and young adult, it was meant to be.