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...It was a collection remarkably free of traditional gender constraints so, say, a male model may wear a traditionally feminine halter-necked blouse with polka-dots and a chiffon lavaliere scarf in back....
...More recently, Timothée Chalamet’s backless red halter top by Haider Ackermann, worn at the Venice Film Festival last September, and his Oscars no shirt-with-a-Louis-Vuitton-suit look of 2022 have tipped...
...More appealing were sleek column and tuxedo dresses with power shoulders, plunging V-necks and chunky gold buttons, which had a fierce glamour, as did oversized jackets worn with flares....
...You could chalk it up to the same nostalgia that has seen the return of combat trousers, or halter-necks, or bumbags. But the employment of tie-dye has more nuanced references....
...So when the V&A opens its brilliant, overdue show based on Quant treasures in their collection, I won’t be budgeting much time for the stuff of the 1970s....
...Initially these were genteel – think airy, creamy chiffon dresses with a pussy-bow halter neckline, or a dove-grey full pleated organza prairie skirt with a diaphanous pleated blouse....
...Plunging monochrome V-neck cricket knits with layered shifts turned heads, as did a combo that teamed a classic fitted polo shirt with a split-seamed crocodile leather kilt....
...lace-trimmed denim hot pants from Dsquared2 (£315) and Burberry Prorsum’s green lace trench (£3,495); Huishan Zhang’s nude pleated dress with fine lace bodice (£1,550); Proenza Schouler’s crêpe de Chine halter-neck...
...Take Marilyn Monroe’s white halter-neck dress that famously blew up around her waist in The Seven Year Itch....
...Translation: canary yellow halter-neck at last year’s Australian Open; purple and blue psychedelic tie-die dress at last year’s Masters tournament in Rome; that lace dress at the French; and, she hints,...
...Indeed, a trawl through February’s glossy fashion magazines shows that where there was binary opposition – long v short, geometric v floral, 1960s v 1980s – this season, it is the melting pot that rules....
...Inertia”, was actually focused on speed (sometimes fashion-speak is as confusing as political-speak) and involved various blurry shots of car parts – doors, fenders and the like – silk-screened onto moulded halter...
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