The Year in Fashion 2008
Because Without Fashion, Mad Men Would Just Be a Bunch of Attractive People Smoking and Cheating
Not since the heyday of fashion television in the eighties—the decade that gave us both Dynasty and Brideshead Revisited—has style played such a leading role in a small-screen series. (In Sex and the City and Gossip Girl, clothes are decoration; here, they're character development.) Jon Hamm's Don Draper sheaths his ambition and guilty secrets in gray sharkskin, while wife Betty (January Jones), like Hitchcock's Marnie, trys to rein in her issues in icily chic equestrian gear. Fashion, meanwhile, has returned the compliment. Matthew Weiner's AMC show inspired self-avowed fan Michael Kors' best collection in years, for Fall 2008: all camel-hair balmacaans, pencil-slim silk floral sheaths, cashmere twinsets, and ocelot-print pants.
Not since the heyday of fashion television in the eighties—the decade that gave us both Dynasty and Brideshead Revisited—has style played such a leading role in a small-screen series. (In Sex and the City and Gossip Girl, clothes are decoration; here, they're character development.) Jon Hamm's Don Draper sheaths his ambition and guilty secrets in gray sharkskin, while wife Betty (January Jones), like Hitchcock's Marnie, trys to rein in her issues in icily chic equestrian gear. Fashion, meanwhile, has returned the compliment. Matthew Weiner's AMC show inspired self-avowed fan Michael Kors' best collection in years, for Fall 2008: all camel-hair balmacaans, pencil-slim silk floral sheaths, cashmere twinsets, and ocelot-print pants.