Things slowed down a little bit this week for new lulu previews in Australia, Asia, and Europe, but there are still a few things to be seen:
There’s a new cool to street capsule collection in Asia and Australia, and oh yes, there will be mesh. The main colorways featured are blush quartz, blue denim, gator green, and banana leaf/jazzy prints. These are the cool to street tank, bra, and crops, which are the only items in the capsule so far.. The crops totally look like running crops and are luxtreme to boot, but they and the rest of the capsule are actually intended for studio-based fitness like yoga, barre, etc.
These new special edition high times look like a redux of last year’s seek the heat crops. I really don’t care for the combo of blush quartz/blue denim. These seem to fall in with the cool to street capsule, based on the colorway choices.
In addition to the greyt/black trim speed shorts lululemon dropped in the US earlier today, they *also* made textured greyt speeds with grapefruit trim. These are cute, but between these, solid grapefruit, and the greyt/black trim, there’s just too much overlap. I’ll stick with solid grapefruit and greyt/black, at the most. Btw, can we get some floral sport multi speeds up in here?
New all time jacket. Is the name supposed to be a riff on the downtime jacket? This one is described as being more cold-weather, so I’m not sure if lulu will be eager to release this in North America right now.
New vinyasa scarf in bold stripe. The colors are pretty purple and stony grape, a new shade that looks similar to iris flower. In Asia this is listed as vitasea (aka lightweight cotton), which should be more summer-appropriate, but in Europe it’s listed as rulu. Based on the pics (and the season) I’m guessing it’s vitasea.
There are new wunder unders in both crops (not shown) and pants length in the new banana leaf print. The crops are rolldown while the pants are regular rise.
Naders says
enough of the mesh already!!! Gimme some cute Luon crops
Suzanne | Agent Athletica says
Yeah, getting a liiiiittle redundant by now… I guess mesh is still selling well, though!
reikokorin says
I would be really into the speeds, but they keep putting contrasting vertical seams on the back. What’s up with that? It really ruins the look of the shorts. I would have loved the jewelled magenta ones, but I couldn’t get over the disruptive vertical back seam on those either.
On a side note, has anyone ordered a pair of the newer round of Hotty Hot Shorts? I bought a pair in Poseidon, but they’re way smaller than my other pairs from the first release. I’m about the give up on Lulu if they can’t get their QC together.
Suzanne | Agent Athletica says
Yeah I know, I don’t like the contrast seams either. :( I don’t know who decided they should do that on almost all the new shorts coming out! Bleh.
Suzanne | Agent Athletica says
Oh also, yes, the spotty QC drives me CRAZY. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be cutting into their profits, so I’m not convinced they’ll be fixing it anytime soon. :