THE DISCREET CHARM OF A WHITE COLLAR

This simple detail has no time, a white collar gives a touch of class to a black dress. The reference to Pierrot’s maxi-collar in the 6o's Valentino dress is evident, while the historical references from which Alessandro Michele starts for Gucci recall the fashion of the fifteenth century. Heidi Slimane has a more discreet style, a small Pierrot collar makes Celine’s dress unique.

Valentino  1960

Gucci F/W 2020-21

Celine F/W 2020-21

50's DRESS - NEW LOOK

The key features of the New Look are long, ample skirts creating a dancing silhouette; a fitted waist, rounded hips, creating a new ideal of proportions, a newly sculpted female form.
After the first Dior's show, Camel Snow, editor-in-chief of the prestigious Herper's Bazaar, declared: 'It's quite a revolution, dear Christian, your dresses have such a new look!' The years of war and rationing had subdued elegance and feminine allure. Christian Dior created a coup de  théâtre by once again giving women a seductive figure, a supple and elegant look. He restructured the female body, making copious use of whalebones and petticoats. But his new 'flower women' met with many hostile reactions. Fingers were pointed disapprovingly at the twelve metres of fabric needed to make certain skirts. In the United States, a movement titled The Little-Below-the-Knee Club denounced the length of the skirts as retrograde step compared to certain feminist conquests. But the English and American press was hugely enthusiastic, greeting the new style in glowing terms.




CLOSET CASTLE di Annapaola Brancia d'Apricena

50's silk 'Corolle' line dress

The Dior New Look

Dovima in Christian Dior cocktail dress, 1951

Dovima photographed by Horst P. Horst

Sophia Loren

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60's SACK DRESS

The sack dress falls straight, not enhances the shapes, also because he is good only for those that do not have shapes. Below: 60's dress in satin moire , essential line embellished with edges of silver sequins. Wear them only if you're skinny!
L'abito a sacco cade dritto, non esalta le forme, anche perchè sta bene solo a chi forme non ne ha. Linea dritta ed essenziale per l'abito in raso moire anni '60 qui sotto impreziosito dai bordi di paillettes argento. Da indossare solo se magrissima!




CLOSET CASTLE di Annapaola Brancia d'Apricena

Renewed findings from the coffer of a castle

60's sheath sack dress edged in silver sequins
Abito a sacchetto anni '60 con bordi in paillettes argento

Catherine Deneuve

Brigitte Bardot

Sharon Tate

Marella Agnelli in Courrège 1968