Resort Fashion Week?

Maybe it's just me, but it seems that Resort Fashion Week in New York is more fashion and less resort. And by fashion, I mean fashion-fashion. Like outfits you'd wear to the club or a cocktail party--not by a pool or the beach.

Take Derek Lam, for instance. A bubble gum pink punk princess dress? At which resort, pray tell, would one were that? It's cute and all but unless you consider a Friday night at the Roosevelt Hotel a resort, then I don't think it will make it in your suitcase for your summer trip.

And Marc Jacobs was even less vacation inspired. A 40s housewife dress? A leopard print coat? A silk purple party frock? Unless your idea of a vacation is to be modestly dressed at rooftop pool parties in Williamsburg, I don't get much of a resort vibe either.

At least Diane Von Furstenburg got the memo--she managed to make her collection chic and vacay inspired without churning out just another ready-to-wear line.

So, word to the wise for designers who choose to show collections during Resort Fashion Week: Make sure you're actually designing for what and who you say you are designing for and not just trying to make an extra buck in between February and October. We're onto you.