Who said rhinestones weren’t sporty?

Ask designers Veronica Swanson Beard and Veronica Miele Beard, and they’d rebut with their 2026 resort collection, dubbed “the Varsity Electric.”

“It’s where high sport meets high shine,” Swanson Beard said. Case in point: a head-to-toe denim look emblazoned with presumably thousands of rhinestones, or the double-waisted track pant paired with a gray cardigan that boasted a bejeweled collar. “It’s like you have your own necklace on it already,” Swanson Beard said.

Elsewhere, a barn-jacket-meets-bar-jacket with a nipped waist and leather accents, a quilted two-piece set and camel striped suiting. “We love sets, not suits,” Swanson Beard clarified, pointing toward an embroidered two-piece quilted skirt and bustier top — the former of which could be worn with a T-shirt and the latter with a pair of the collection’s slouchy denim offering.

“A ‘suit’ denotes they have to be together, and the genius of the set is it’s inexpensive, you can break it apart and you can wear it in so many different ways,” she continued.

That ethos stretched into formalwear, where the collection boasted a few gowns (one of them with rhinestone studding of its own), a faux fur, a quilted jacket and a tuxedo pant.

Speaking of formalwear, the focus was clearly more on daytime. “For us, we’re really leaning into that desirability aspect — the pieces you want right then for the holidays but also for vacation. They have longevity to take you into spring,” Swanson Beard said. That thinking extended into accessories, with an array of shoe and bag offerings.

“Our shoe business has grown 300 percent year-over-year,” Swanson Beard said. “And our bags are in Year Two, and we see an amazing opportunity when luxury bags are so expensive right now.”

But there are clear standouts, like the Loop bag — which also got a bejeweled treatment for resort — and ballet flats and sneakers. “We’re taking the same approach to ready-to-wear with footwear and bags,” she said, noting the bag offering ranges from evening clutches to shoulder strap hold-alls. “We want to create this dream wardrobe. We don’t want to just be workwear, or weekend or event. We want to be a sort of general store for a chic, multilayered life.”