What on earth is heading on? With hindsight, Rihanna nailed it a week ago, when she got her bow after her Fenty x Puma collection - in a floor-length pink coat dress and three strings of pearls - and described the appearance as "what Marie Antoinette would wear to go to the gym. inch Athleisure has come to dominate fashion not merely because people go to the gym more, but because fashion reflects the mental weather out there. The rise in status of sport as referenced in what we wear reflects how our new value system prizes action, "making products happen", above the old requirements of propriety, formality, and expertise. This isn't only about action in the literal physical exercise sense - it connects to the Vogue-versus-the-bloggers debate, which is the old world versus the new, the upstarts getting in the looks (literally, at the shows) of the establishment. Style week is a lttle bit like an ouija board: they've probably pushing the cup, but the exercise draws to a close up being revealing anyhow.
If you look beyond pink, the same essential dress silhouette is everywhere: more languid at Chlo?, structured and architectural at Loewe, racer-back sporty at Stella McCartney. The green is there for emphasis, a statement about this being a particularly feminine moment at Paris fashion week. Even before Betty Kardashian's ordeal, the Rome fashion week headlines were about women alone, from Rihanna channelling the lonely figure of Marie Antoinette to the debut of Maria Grazia Chiuri, the first woman to design Christian Dior. Grazia Chiuri's influence has been pervasive immediately, not merely in her slogan feminism at Dior however in that her rise to prominence has put the Valentino look with which she made her name at the cutting edge of everyone's mind. The Valentino look involves narrow-shouldered, slim-sleeved dresses with an essential quality, which Chiuri calls "grace". Grace, states, is "like elegance, but more subtle. "
Pink dresses are part of the " new world " order in that they don't comply with traditional rules. They can be not cocktail dresses, or party dresses, or power dresses, or any of the established department-store categories. While they are dresses for striding out, they are not for a health club. And rather than being cutting-edge, they are loaded with historical references, from Guinevere to Marie Antoinette to Elsa Schiaparelli.
Just at the moment in order to appeared that fashion might be entirely subsumed in the athleisure industry, the pink dress is fashion week's announcement of independence. It really is fashion flying its very own shades from the flagpole. Which usually is excellent news in my view, because there are only so many bra tops you need to see, even on Gigi Hadid. And if I ever do feel the need to see a retraite of expensive running tights I could always go and watch my local fifty percent marathon. I'll be the one wearing the pink dress.
If you look beyond pink, the same essential dress silhouette is everywhere: more languid at Chlo?, structured and architectural at Loewe, racer-back sporty at Stella McCartney. The green is there for emphasis, a statement about this being a particularly feminine moment at Paris fashion week. Even before Betty Kardashian's ordeal, the Rome fashion week headlines were about women alone, from Rihanna channelling the lonely figure of Marie Antoinette to the debut of Maria Grazia Chiuri, the first woman to design Christian Dior. Grazia Chiuri's influence has been pervasive immediately, not merely in her slogan feminism at Dior however in that her rise to prominence has put the Valentino look with which she made her name at the cutting edge of everyone's mind. The Valentino look involves narrow-shouldered, slim-sleeved dresses with an essential quality, which Chiuri calls "grace". Grace, states, is "like elegance, but more subtle. "
Pink dresses are part of the " new world " order in that they don't comply with traditional rules. They can be not cocktail dresses, or party dresses, or power dresses, or any of the established department-store categories. While they are dresses for striding out, they are not for a health club. And rather than being cutting-edge, they are loaded with historical references, from Guinevere to Marie Antoinette to Elsa Schiaparelli.
Just at the moment in order to appeared that fashion might be entirely subsumed in the athleisure industry, the pink dress is fashion week's announcement of independence. It really is fashion flying its very own shades from the flagpole. Which usually is excellent news in my view, because there are only so many bra tops you need to see, even on Gigi Hadid. And if I ever do feel the need to see a retraite of expensive running tights I could always go and watch my local fifty percent marathon. I'll be the one wearing the pink dress.
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