I've become extremely interested in exploring, in depth, the fashion trends and revivals of the 20th century. As a unenthused teenager in the fashionably stagnant 1990's (in the mainstream, at least) I cultivated an early love for vintage clothing. My interest in this has only increased since I started working at Dame.
It's a total trip to start to see things I remember from the 90's creeping back into the fashion scope, and I havn't been around for that long. It seems that the amount of time it takes for things to come back into style and be re-hashed is becoming shorter and shorter. My analytical mind starts to entertain all sorts of postmodern time-space compression theories, but I'll spare you those for today.
Anyway, investigating all of these eras that I did not experience first hand has always been a hobby. As somebody who grew up in the dead zone of the 90's (if interested in more manifestos of this generation, see Camille De Toledo's "Coming of Age at the End of History", it's a riot) I don't have too many era specific things to feel nostalgic about except, perhaps, for ironic T-shirts, which are still hanging on by a thread. So I have plenty of unexperienced trends to feel that strange, romantic curiosity about.
Anyway, that's my situation, and I think it is more of a blessing than a curse really.
At this point, however, it's kind of strange for anybody to think that the 1920's were almost a century ago, but still exist in our historical periphery as being fairly 'modern'. According to
Laver's Law of fashion, it's getting near romantic for everyone. Short haircuts, dancing, drinking, jazz, boxy silhouttes. The two women in the photo are wearing fantastic chanel suits, which must have seemed incredible after corsets, bustles, and the like.
Aparently, there have been many attempts at 1920's fashion revivals through the decades, but I say we shoot for this next, since to almost everyone around, it is total uncharted territory. Who knows what might be born out of the attempt.
summer 2010?
