Fifties clothes were a kind of repression on steroids.
Late sixties rebellious stripes and minidresses are being referenced.
Designers are over all over the map in fashion.
It's back to the sixties in fifties pink.
Minidress + trimmings.
Note the eighties-inspired broad-shouldered jacket.
From Olympia Le Tan's Spring-Summer 2015 collection:
Below? Balmain -- surprise me! Spring 2015 Paris Fashion Week--pops us back to Mondrian, stripes, Pop Art and elephant pants, but you have to admit, 21st century Balmain class.
Still and all (a lovely connector phrase my friend Janice used to use), there is flattery in imitation, and there's a whole lot of that flattery these days.
There are exceptions: the pink jacket below makes this model's hips look pregnant, with a blocky torso effect. Instead of the boring old tailored jackets of the past, let's have a jacket that cancels out all a woman's best features like waist, breasts, curves!
Below left a late fifties/early sixties party dress.
Right, contemporary prints, skirts in all lengths
A Lonely Heart from Sgt. Pepper?
