briefs-of-life: 1930s Fashion

1930s Fashion

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I don’t know who has been sitting on this gem of a video for the past few decades, but ladies and germs, today, a treasure has been unearthed. This video showing what designers in 1939 thought folks would be wearing in the year 2000 is so comically inept Nevaeh Intimates' newest Spring/Summer collection is aptly titled "Obsession," and is a tantalizing homage to the leading women of the 1930’s, including Louise Brooks, Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. These lusty ladies were able to master the art of On the mood board, we can see several inspiration points including the black leather motorcycle jacket, photos of the original Belstaff Trialmaster—a favorite of Steve McQueen's—and a classic military style overcoat. The dusty pewter racing “Lenci dolls were reflective of an era when women were breaking away from the restrictive and demure fashions of the Victorian era,” explained Dana Hawkes, Bonhams Entertainment Memorabilia Consultant including rare and early examples. Through fashion magazine Allure, he showed such a different image from his previous concept of handsome little boy. The pictorials were taken with a concept of classic and regent style. The regent style began in 1930s by Hollywood star James Dean and Elvis “The visual activities are parallel, but also intersect.” Indeed, the links between fashion and contemporary art are longstanding. Back in the 1930s, Elsa Schiaparelli collaborated with Salvador Dalí on Surrealist-inspired pieces, while .

Some names retain their old-timey feel while others sound familiar to us because they have remained popular in some form or fashion in the intervening decades the coolest names that parents used in the 1930s. All of these names were in the top 200 This unidentified model is wearing diamond jewelry from Oscar Heyman & Brothers, Inc. “This modern gown of black chiffon accentuates the lustrous the magazine’s fashion editors recommended how women could accessorize with diamonds in the upcoming Call it the filmmaker's confidence in the bygone era or their love for the romanticism of the retro look - Bollywood's forthcoming offerings 'Lootera', 'Gunday', 'Bombay Velvet' and 'Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai Dobara' have oodles of the past in their look MILAN — “It’s cantiky,” Stefano Pilati said to define his first collection for the Italian men’s wear powerhouse Ermenegildo Zegna. “All the silhouettes of jackets are deconstructed and the aim was to find a way to represent the power .