Vintage details from the past always pop up here and there in new collections, quite often making us realise that grand and magniloquent words such as "genius" should be erased from the personal vocabulary of many fashion cricitcs and journalists. So let's briefly look at a couple of past references in new designs.
The first example shows a silk Schiaparelli jacket from 1948-50 characterised by embroidered petal/paisley shaped motifs in metallic thread and glass beads. The petal motif comes back in a sort of enlarged and modernised version in Christopher Kane's Spring/Summer 2014 collection.
Echoes of Schiaparelli's evening designs incorporating two drawings by Cocteau inspired by the theme of the double, reappear instead in a couple of coats in Miu Miu's collection that feature two profiles facing each other.
The same collection includes several coats in candy colours that could be defined as updated versions of Mod coats combined with classic André Courrèges' outerwear from the '60s.
Miuccia Prada took inspiration from André Courrèges in previous collections, but among the references in her S/S 14 collection there is also a new entry, Pierre Cardin.
Prada's collection features indeed a bi-coloured fur coat in an orangey yellow and red shade that looks like the remixed version of a Cardin design from the '60s.
Can you spot further details inspired/borrowed or simply pilfered from the past in new collections?
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