A First Resort: Oscar de la Renta Resort 2012

While the resort shows have only just begun, it's hard not to get excited about the Oscar de la Renta collection and dare to deem it as the most fascinating.

The collection is rich with Spanish and cubist influence and is highly conceptual. Models made their way down the runway in pom pom adorned flamenco hats and blood red boleros transporting the audience to a matador's world in Pamplona. The heavy Picasso influence (during his cubist period) is made apparent with sophisticated day-dresses draped in geometric, colored fabrics. Of course, the signature feminine aesthetic of Oscar is not lost in the collection with heavily embroidered cropped jackets, playfully polka dot prints, and ethereal gowns. The range of looks is truly magnificent and the seamless blending of an art style hasn't been executed this perfectly since YSL's "Mondrian Primary Colors Dress" in the 60's.

You can check out the rest of the collection here!

Text Lauryn Stone

Source(s): Style.com

Extreme Gourmet

One of the best chefs in the world, Ferran Adrià, is closing shop at his renowned restaurant in Spain, El Bulli. Any Top Chef acolyte or casual pursuer of Food Network techniques would drool at the crazy concoctions Adrià has created. In a marathon 30-course meal at El Bulli, one can expect anything from sculptural corn bread and reconstituted, spherical olives to marinated rose petals with artichoke foam. Jay McInerney recently wrote an article for Vanity Fair about his dining experience; read it here and let your imagination run wild at the possibilities for Adrià's future experiments in molecular gastronomy after El Bulli closes next summer.

Text Molly O'Brien