Since it was a holiday in Aus yesterday, upload was bumped back a day, hence the lack of post about it yesterday. I’ve really been enjoying how clean and cohesive Australia’s uploads have been lately:
The “face” of upload flows really nicely here: heat wave, regal plum, ghost weave, and if you scroll further, a little navy too. This organized look reminds me of how North American uploads used to be. I’m not sure if they’ve stopped being that way because of supply chain/port problems (you would think the former would affect Aus too) or because the North American team has simply stopped putting a priority on this (or maybe a little of both).
Anyway, onto the new!
Part of the new hot to street capsule includes these crops in black, brushed animal coal black, and heat wave. These use the current trends of perforation, mesh, and those little pinstripe-ish mesh details that I don’t quite know what to call.
The hot to street pants…wow. Same design motifs as the above, but the massive blocks of mesh in the front and the back are a little jarring, especially in heat wave.
There’s some kind of new zip-front bra pictured in this photo of the brushed animal coal black hot to street pants.
The hot to street shorts layer swift shorts over a perforated mesh under-short. I can’t do the shorts-over-shorts thing. Ick.
Rounding out the capsule (for now), the hot to street tank. This basically looks like a tank version of the bonded bra, plus that thin mesh detail along the center front.
Moving on from hot to street, new heat wave cool racerback. This was also spotted in a Singapore store and it’s all polyester/spandex. In the closeups you can see the white “grin”, though it probably would blend in well with the pattern. I still want this print on an energy bra and also probably speed shorts.
For studio racerback fans, there’s a new one in ghost weave.
The straight up bra showed up in one color in another international upload a few weeks back, and has returned. It’s cute in ghost weave.
More heat wave: rolldown wunder under pants.
New cardigan with, guess what, another pun: the cardi in the front. It’s boolux in the front, tencel in the back, and just naval blue so far.
Lastly, those of us who’ve been eyeballing the run all day backpack, here’s a new one in oversized buffalo check almost blue/black.
WHAT THE FLIP are they thinking??? hot to street???!! HOT to please do not go on the street… i am not how lulu’s design team went from fantastic girly details that set them as a leader in fit fashion to nike/UA-ish styling. I like Nike and I like UA but please for the love of GOD go back to cute details like trims not mesh mesh MEH!
PS I like the run all day pack… :)
I don’t think the port problems would have affected AUS. Port workers on the west coast went on strike/slowdown. If items are made overseas and then shipped to AUS that channel was probably fine.
Yeah, I meant I would expect any supply chain issues (i.e., manufacturing) to affect Aus, but *not* delivery/port drama in CA.
I actually really like ghost weave. I’m sure I’ll get obsessed and buy too much in that print. It’s the first lulu print in a long time I really liked. Also waiting for a run all day back back…preferably in navy, but I’ll take whatever I can get.
Everything else…meh.
I would’ve been tempted by the run all day backpack in blue tropics or fresco blue. I don’t love the colors I’ve seen so far. Ghost weave has been growing on me too. I’m slightly partial to heat wave, but I do like both.
Are the Hot to Street Crops luxtreme or some version of luon?
Luxtreme!
They cannot be serious with those Hot to Street pants and crops. Everything, including the name, is ridiculous. The ghost weave SRB is intriguing. I could be into the heat wave CRB but the way the pattern is off center is hurting me.
The regal plum crops from the front look ok, but I just don’t dig the perforated mesh on anything. The pants are a hot freakin’ mess.
There are so many unnecessary seams! I am very sensitive to seams and try to keep them at a minimum. Mesh and seams to be the design focus these days. So uncreative.
That’s true. I don’t love the curved butt seam. If that seam went straight up the butt instead of curved (which would be less intrusive), and you traded the mesh out for regular mesh, the crops would be a lot better to me. I agree overall though that excessive seam details and mesh is not great. Lulu has been overstyling a lot of pieces in that way lately.
The un-named bra looks like it could be the bra version of the Hot To Street Tank as the front design looks the same as the tank.
Yeah, I thought of that too. The one piece of evidence against that is the color isn’t in the current palette of the hot to street line, unless they introduce that color later. I bet the back will be different though vs the tank, since the back of the tank is basically just the bonded bra.
Came back to say you were right about the electric coral bra being the hot the street. :)
I like the plum crops. Too bad they don’t have side pockets. I love the new print in the run backpack IF it’s grey/black & not blue. Hard to tell from the pic. Maybe it will show up tonight?
Where is the backpack anyway??? They are really keeping the US waiting with that.