Fashion house upturns decade’s retrograde image with aesthetic of French muses
The 1950s were much cooler than you think. That was the message as
opened with a Dior show that upturned that decade’s retrograde image. Instead of pastel sweaters and milkshakes, this was the aesthetic of Juliette Gréco and the cafe society of Paris’sMaria Grazia Chiuri , set out to reclaim the 1950s for France, because they have been monopolised in popular memory by the US, she said backstage at the show. “I realised that like many foreigners, so much of my image of France was formed by Paris as it is seen through an American lens,” she said, referencing the romantic images of the photographer Richard Avedon, as well as Hollywood films.
The show opened with a model wearing a white shirt, ravishingly unbuttoned, with a simple straight black skirt, in a nod to the free spirited mood of Gréco, a Dior client during the 1950s. A ladylike black handbag swung from an opera-gloved hand. Piaf, whose many accomplishments included breaking the US a decade before the Beatles while singing inslogan T-shirt, worn with lashings of kohl eyeliner and mismatched earrings.
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