»» Women’s Fashion: Fresh Ideas Wanted
A story from Newsweek titled All Dressed Up for the Youthquake, leads to reflections on how the women’s fashions have changed in the last 20 years.
According to the author of the story, Cathleen McGuigan, there would be a shortage of new ideas in the collections presented by fashion designers in the last years.
She says too many ideas and motives recently seen on the catwalks were stolen from the trends launched in the ’60s and ’70s.
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“It’s hard to believe we’re in the 21st century when the fashion runways are jammed with ideas from the 1960s and ’70s,…..This year especially, it’s deja vu all over again.”
She continues:
“In fact, women’s fashions changed more radically in the years from World War I to the end of World War II than they have since the end of the pivotal baby-boom decades, from the Vietnam War to the 1980s.”
With a historical flashback on the ’60s and ’70s, Cathleen McGuigan describes how the music drove the street style and England was the cutting edge as in fashion as in music.
“Music brought together the ideas of mods and rockers, the revolution of Carnaby Street, the coolness of London.”
Now, most of designers would just be sampling and remixing ideas and styles from the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s.
She concludes:“…what’s missing is the impulse that made these designs cool long ago: they were unexpected, impolite, even subversive.”
