Adam Lippes took a trip to Japan last December, visiting Tokyo and Kyoto, and staying at a ryokan in Shuzenji. He came back raving, as so many do, about “a culture continually in search of a higher form of perfection.” Travel has been informing his recent collections; a trip through Sicily was the starting point for his pre-fall outing, for resort it’s naturally Japan.

Pointing to the geometric mosaic print of a shirtdress in shades of navy, chocolate brown, gold, plum, and persimmon, Lippes namechecked Robert Motherwell’s Lyric Suite , a series of 600 ink paintings. Motherwell used rick paper, rather than traditional canvas, which gave the paintings their “delicate, translucent quality.” Japan’s influence on this collection was indeed subtle. The references were present if you looked f

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