Take this post as a much-needed break from the relentless fashion week reviews (I guess we all desperately need a pause...).
A while back, while on a research on early adverts appearing in fashion magazines from the 50s-60s, I found this image advertising the Zenith "Captain" watch (it was inside a June 1959 issue of an Italian magazine hidden away in my very messy personal archives...) and it recently came back to my mind while chatting with a friend about the bright colours in some 60s films.
Apart from loving the colours in this image - those shades of Thunderbirds blue and orange-y red that seem to be so fashionable for the next Spring/Summer season (we sort of saw them resurfacing in different collections...) - I love the sort of dynamism implied by the blurred image of the race car pilot wearing protective helmet, glasses and leather gloves, that makes him look like a crossover between a scuba diver and a character in a painting by a Futurist artist.
I guess that if I were a fashion designer, such an image would easily inspire me not just one design, but an entire collection.
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