In the world of Fashion, there seems to be nothing like the present. Whilst we poor souls in the real world (!) are just getting excited about the first glimpses of this summer, the creative team at Dior has already completed their plans for 2023. On Thursday night on Venice Beach, a coterie … Continue reading
Months after its stormy Spring/Summer 2022 show, Alexander McQueen has released a powerful short film celebrating the collection – and the London skyline that inspired it. McQueen creative director Sarah Burton had been inspired by storm chasers – a niche community of people who seek out severe weather, just for the thrill of it. She … Continue reading
Hot on the heels of the trainwreck of the movie The House of Gucci, Apple TV is setting its sights on now one, but two of the grandest old Fashion Houses for its new film. The New Look will star Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn) and Coco Chanel (Juliette Binoche) focusing on the designers changing … Continue reading
Kim Jones, the British artistic director of men’s collections at Dior (and of ready-to-wear and fur collections for women at Fendi,) really excelled himself with his new collection for Dior’s Autumn/Winter 2022 menswear Collection Influenced by the Beat movement, the mid-20th century American literary school that shifted the way the modern word is written, Jones said … Continue reading
Although this may seem like the distant past before many of you were not even born, the significance and the major global impact of that time greatly affected and help shape art, music and fashions of today
The Swinging Sixties was the first-ever youth-driven cultural revolution and it focused on modernity and fun-loving hedonism. It took place in London where surprisingly even 15 years after WW2 had ended, there was still an element of official rationing in place. The new youth were desperate to escape the confines and old-fashioned tastes and attitudes of their parents and were very quick to embrace ideas and styles that were the total opposite.
It was all symbolized by The Beatles in music, Mary Quant and Biba in clothes with iconic figureheads such as Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton in style. Plus fashion was no longer ‘a girls thing’ and the most fashionable boys became Mods.
However It wasn’t all about how the new generation looked, it was also about how they thought. This was the time for the political activism of the anti-nuclear movement, and sexual liberation which would eventually lead to the decriminalization of homosexuality in 1969
The video has no real narrative but is so worth watching as it shows that in London at least the Swinging Sixties affected more than a few. It was a great class leveler when shop girls wore the same new fashions as debutantes which made it a very rare class leveler.