She was a pioneering designer who simplified silhouettes down to their bare minimum, freeing women from corsetry and infusing menswear sensibilities into her patterns and fabric selections. Indeed, her life—just as much as her work—has been the subject of books, films, television shows, and other forms of media.
The company she kept, the path she took to garnering success, and the musings she imparted throughout her lifetime are still carefully examined by fashion fans. Bazaar Bride. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Goodbye to All That. Apic Getty Images. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Evening Standard Getty Images. Keystone Getty Images. This slimmed-down silhouette resonated powerfully—so much so that Karl Lagerfeld famously dropped 91 pounds so he could wear it.
He established a new paradigm for the hip suit—and the gaunt physique it required. Those minimalist black suits were a swerve from Ford's corporeal delights toward something more self-reflective, somber, and cerebral. Your emotions. By whittling the body to its bones, Slimane transferred the focus of the suit from the physical to the emotional.
Thom Browne Spring No one subverts tradition like Browne. First he turned the sack suit into a radical, body-morphing silhouette. Then he collapsed the whole gender binary onto a single model. At the same time, another insurrection was afoot, this one from Thom Browne.
Launched as an appointment-only tailoring shop in , his eponymous brand transformed the quotidian suit into something jarringly idiosyncratic. Browne's too-small jacket, with its high armholes and narrow shoulders, constricted the torso; his high-waisted floodwater pants fully exposed the ankles. His suit was the physical manifestation of a boy becoming a man, as though he were transforming into adulthood, cartoonishly, right before your eyes. I wanted them to feel like, This is exactly how I am as a person.
Browne's reimagined sack suit undermined all kinds of conventions about the man as the dutiful breadwinner, the distant father, the office drone. By reappropriating the gray suit, he liberated it—he allowed the wearer to feel as though his body might burst out of it.
Browne has pushed that freedom to the limits—see jacked and tatted Odell Beckham Jr. Prior to that Browne had spent years subverting gender norms in his runway collections. He put men in heeled brogues, attached wedding gowns to the backs of tuxedos, and made the skirt a wardrobe staple for some men.
So in a sense it was Browne who passed the baton to Alessandro Michele, who took over Gucci in and injected an immediate jolt of androgynous romance. Michele's sylph-like tailoring blended masculine and feminine archetypes—strong padded shoulders that curve to a slender waistline, oversized lapels, the wild flare of a pair of bell-bottoms—to help express a new generation's searching, open-minded approach to gender identity and body image.
It's no accident his nerdy-whimsical designs have a '70s feel—it instantly infuses them with that era's free-love approach to sexuality. To me it's very beautiful and it's art, and to them it's outrageous and crazy". Fashion is instant language. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.
And style is what you choose. Find your own style and have the courage to stick to it. Choose your clothes for your way of life. Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles. Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good. Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are! They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce.
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