A CENTURY AGO

A century ago, during the Twenties decade, fashion was revolutionary and extravagant and wonderful.The hemline crept up the leg as the decade unfolded the back line dropped a little lower, but the neckline remained chaste and demure. The androgynous, youthful look came to represent the decade., though not every woman could carry it off. Thankfully there were several styles to choose from, as long as they had a low waist. Hemlines rose and dropped at least twice, skirts being at their shortest around 1927. The gown's straight silhouettes were often broken up or emphasized by geometric decoration, and different colorurs could be used for the top and bottom halves. Fuller skirts remained in fashion, becoming more prominent when hemlines were lower. But the 1920s are characterized by two distinct periods of fashion: in the early part of the decade, change was slower, and there was more reluctance to wear the new, revealing styles made popular. From 1925, the public more passionately embraced the styles now typically associated with the Roaring Twenties. Despite the brevity of their reign, knee-leigh evening gowns sprinkled with beads and sequins are probably the main garments associated with the Roaring Twenties.  

Dress by Paul Poiret 1922

Thalia Barbarova

Norma Shearer

Pyjamas by Edward Molyneux

Coco Chanel

Gilda Grey

 Louise Brooks

I ADORE PAUL POIRET

I want to share with you the pictures of these beautiful dresses by Paul Poiret. These dresses are more than a century years old, but they are absolutely eternal.

Paul Poiret dominated the world of fashion in the early twentieth century. Not only did he introduce a radically simplified female silhouette, but he also pioneered the sale of women's clothes tighter with lifestyle accessories such as perfume and decorative objects for the home.

Known in America as the "King of Fashion", he liberated women from constriction undergarments, most significantly from the corset, which had shaped the female form almost without interruption for hundreds of years. In so doing, he revolutionised dressmaking by shifting its emphasis away from the skills of tailoring to those based on the skills of draping. He advocated dresses that hung from the shoulder, pioneering such styles as the chemise, which he introduced as early as 1911.

beyond his technical innovation, Poiret established the blueprint of the modern fashion business. he founded a perfume and cosmetics company, as well as decorative arts company. In forming these enterprises, he became the first designer to relate fashion to interior design and to promote a "total lifestyle". 

Poiret's designs reflected the dominant artistic discourses of the early twentieth century, most notably orientalist.

 Voglio condividere con voi le foto di questi bellissimi vestiti di Paul  Poiret. Questi abiti hanno più di un secolo,  ma sono assolutamente eterni.  Paul Poiret ha dominato il mondo della moda agli inizi del XX secolo. Non solo ha introdotto una silhouette femminile radicalmente semplificata, ma ha anche aperto la strada alla vendita di abiti femminili correlati ad accessori di lifestyle come profumi e oggetti decorativi per la casa. Conosciuto in America come "il re della moda", ha liberato le donne dal corsetto che aveva plasmato la silhouette femminile quasi ininterrottamente per centinaia di anni. Così facendo, ha rivoluzionato la sartoria spostando l'accento sulle competenze eccezionali nell'arte del drappeggio. Ha lanciato abiti con le spalle morbide e la camicia, che ha introdotto già nel 1911. Oltre la sua innovazione tecnica, Poiret ha istituito il progetto del  business della moda. ha fondato una società di profumi e cosmetici. Nel formare queste imprese, è diventato il primo stilista a mettere in relazione la moda al design d'interni e a promuovere uno "stile di vita totale".
Il disegn di Poiret rifletteva i filoni artistici dominanti del primo Novecento, in particolare l'orientalismo. 

ETNO-CHIC

Paul Poiret

Paul Poiret

Theda Bara

Talitha Getty

Talitha Getty

Prada by Albert Watson 1989

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