Already as a young girl I used to be fascinated by black and white fashion related images taken during the Second World War.
I was particularly interested in the way in Italy Mussolini had devised a whole plan to change the style and fashion habits of the entire population since he had understood how powerful fashion could be.
Luckily his plans failed and Italian women kept on looking up at France when it came to fashion trends, rejecting the models Fascism suggested.
Among my favourite images of fashion trends from the war, there are many that show accessories, in particular shoes with cork or wooden platforms and raffia or crocheted uppers, and bags made with recycled materials and scraps of fabric.
A recently opened exhibition that mainly focuses on the accessories worn in Paris during the Second World War seems to indulge my passion.
The event is taking pace at Paris’ Mémorial du Maréchal Leclerc de Hauteclocque et de la Libération de Paris-Musée Jean Moulin and you can read more about it in a piece I wrote for Dazed Digital.
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