subscribe to style file blog via RSSAre You Ready To Revisit The Classics?
April 8, 2010 10:05 am
For an industry as obsessed with change as fashion is, there certainly were plenty of designers thinking about the past this season. Miuccia Prada said she was revising things she did in the nineties (though, it must be said, most of her almost-15-year-old designs look just as modern today as they did during the Clinton years). Marc Jacobs, who told us it was refreshing to stop trying so hard to be new, tweaked signatures like tweedy three-quarter-length coats and long skirts. And at Dolce & Gabbana, a video showing Domenico Dolce expertly tailoring a jacket was a moving backdrop to the parade of trademark sexy suits he and Stefano Gabbana sent down the runway. As far as trends go, this return to roots is about as customer-friendly as they come. After all, how else would these pieces become classics if they weren’t beloved in the first place?
Click here for more examples of the now and the then, and tell us what you make of the connections.
tags: Dolce & Gabbana, Domenico Dolce, Marc Jacobs, Miuccia Prada, Stefano Gabbana
I feel that this “visit” to the classic style is a way to honor the true feminine elegance. One reading modern through the latest fabrics and patterns is inevitable, is evolution. Unite the elegance and modernity seems to be the ideal marriage, celebrated by fashion.
Leila Silva
By LeilaSilva on 04/8/10 at 11:14 amhttp://www.leilasilva.wordpress.com
I like the “Before” outfits more than the new ones. Is something wrong?
By FrenchCactus on 04/8/10 at 11:53 amI thought the same: I’d chose the “then”looks over the “now” outfits anytime!
By kokeshi on 04/9/10 at 6:12 amDoesn’t surprise me that designer’s are looking to the roots of their labels. When things are moving too rapidly in politics and culture, people in general often find comfort in what they know; in certainty and therefore, in styles of the past and traditional values. So, I think this move is a very natural progression.
By EmilyTheDressmaker on 04/9/10 at 9:33 pmAnd another thing, if the fashion-conscious in society are feeling a turn to tradition due to the pressing changes occuring in society now, designers are spot on for appealing to this consumer demand.
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By EmilyTheDressmaker on 04/9/10 at 9:37 pmThe Post-Modernist movement has now entered it’s ever-feared paradox; we have ran out of work to reference!
By frozenbeneath on 04/10/10 at 9:19 pmi find it sad that designers are resorting to drawing from previous ideas. we are desperate for a revolution to happen. something like punk or new romantic that defines a decade hasnt happened in a long time!
By dancinglittleliar on 04/11/10 at 5:24 pmSo? This is history http://hotmode.com.ua/ мода
By mighhv on 05/8/10 at 5:43 pm