CANY

Perusing fashion’s omnipresent color-blocking—a trend that surfaced in the fall/winter collections and which has only strengthened in the resort pieces now in stores and spring clothes due to arrive any minute—one can’t help but notice an effortless association between these architecturally inspired looks and a certain South Beach neighborhood. From bold color combi-nations to design treatments that are often decidedly linear in their graphics (what leaps to mind is the “engineered plaids” crafted by the always architecturally minded Narciso Rodriguez, who for resort was inspired by Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera), do designers have the Art Deco District on their minds?