Jeanne-Aurore et moi sommes toutes les deux très nostalgiques du minimalisme des années 90. Je me souviens des robes monochromes en jersey très fluides qui glissaient sur la silhouette, ou des longues jupes en corolle. Hélas, je n’arrive plus trop à porter ce style, j’adore, mais je me sens trop étiquetée « nineties »... Quoi qu’il en soit, j’ai retrouvé cet esprit sur deux modèles exposés au Fashion Institute of Technology à New York, grande école de mode qui a son propre musée, et présentait récemment une expo intitulée « Fashion and technology » (on y voyait comment les avancées technologiques - nouvelles machines, nouveaux matériaux, nouvelles techniques - ont pu influencer la création). Celui de gauche est signé Bonnie August, il date des années 70, mais sa simplicité longiligne vaudra encore deux décennies plus tard. Celui de droite, créé en 1987, est pile dans son temps, ces mélanges de crêpe et de Lycra ayant été vus sur toutes les stars d’Hollywood. Et même dans ma garde-robe à moi de l’époque !
Jeanne-Aurore and I are both very nostalgic of the nineties minimalism (even though I have a hard time today to keep wearing those long jersey dresses that felt beautifully to the ankle...) This style was reminded to me through two models while I was visiting an exhibition called “Fashion and technology” at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. The one on the left is from Bonnie August, it’s from the seventies, but its simplicity was still relevant two decades later. The one on the right was created in 1987 and is a perfect illustration of its times, as this crêpe and Lycra mix has been seen on all the Hollywood stars... and even in my own wardrobe from this period!
L.G.
Jeanne-Aurore and I are both very nostalgic of the nineties minimalism (even though I have a hard time today to keep wearing those long jersey dresses that felt beautifully to the ankle...) This style was reminded to me through two models while I was visiting an exhibition called “Fashion and technology” at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. The one on the left is from Bonnie August, it’s from the seventies, but its simplicity was still relevant two decades later. The one on the right was created in 1987 and is a perfect illustration of its times, as this crêpe and Lycra mix has been seen on all the Hollywood stars... and even in my own wardrobe from this period!
L.G.
