New blog Part Nouveau, or ‘partly new’, delves into fashion history to showcase the inspiration–be it art, photography or design–behind some of today’s biggest fashion moments. It’s fascinating and impossible not to get lost in, so we asked the site’s founder, Lilah Ramzi, to give us a little history lesson each week.
In this week’s lesson, Steven Meisel takes on an iconic Cecil Beaton photograph.
New blog Part Nouveau, or ‘partly new’, delves into fashion history to showcase the inspiration–be it art, photography or design–behind some of today’s biggest fashion moments. It’s fascinating and impossible not to get lost in, so we asked the site’s founder, Lilah Ramzi, to give us a little history lesson each week.
This week’s lesson? That caged crinoline that was a hit for Sarah Burton’s spring/summer 2013 bee-themed collection for Alexander McQueen was a hit with women in the mid 19th century too. Only they wore theirs under their dress, of course.
In a recent piece for T magazine, Suzy Menkes heralds the end of what she calls a “decade of slut style,” and a return to modesty on the runways. (Yeah, we had a thing or two to say about that.) But if history is any indication, provocative fashion is nothing new and not going anywhere anytime soon.
Click through to read our brief account of fashion’s most revealing moments through the ages. What got people riled up (sometimes just a glimpse of ankle)—and what didn’t (a whole lotta cleavage in the 1500s)—might surprise you.
Around here, we love a good fashion book. 2012 brought us winners like Grace Coddington’s memoir, the Sartorialist’s second venture Closer, and the massive Kate Moss Book. Whether you’re looking for a good read to help pass the long days spent inside waiting for spring, or just something pretty to go on your coffee table, we’ve compiled a list of the best style books being released in 2013, plus where to get them. And the releases start now. Mary Blume’s hotly anticipated biography of Balenciaga hits bookstores today.
Dick Clark (aka “America’s Oldest Teenager”) passed away yesterday at the age of 82. As the host of American Bandstand and the perennial harbinger of New Year’s Eve, Dick Clark was there for a lot of pop culture moments. While so many people today are remembering American Bandstand for the musical acts and as a nostalgic reminder of a really transitional time in America, we’re looking at it as an amazing lesson in fashion history.
From that wasp-waisted 1950′s silhouette that ruled at the show’s inception to the bell bottoms (which plague us still) of the show’s 1970s heyday, take a peek at the fashion cycle (seriously, it all comes back) on the American Bandstand stage. A picture of Cher in 1982 wearing leopard print pants? Pretty sure we see that outfit 10 times a day near our office here in Soho.
Click through for to see Dick Clark through the years and some of the musical acts that defined American Bandstand–and, of course, what they wore.
