The 16th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice closed today registering a record number of visitors (over 275,000 on top of the 14,434 attendants of the pre-opening, meaning that architecture is definitely trending). We've had a very architectural week focused on installations and projects from the Biennale, so let's close it today in a fashionable way via some vintage looks by a designer who was born near Venice, Pierre Cardin.
For the 1960 Winter, Cardin designed a series of architectural coats such as the first two seen in this post, the first in grey wool shantung characterised by a large angular scarf secured on the coat with two large buttons. The second model, in a colourful plaid pattern, featured instead a well-sculpted voluminous round-shouldered silhouette, ragan sleeves and four large buttons on the front.
The best designs Cardin came up with for that Winter, though, were a trio of identical velvet coats in bright tomato red, forest green and sky blue: their silhouette was minimal and simple, with a lateral fastening and ragan sleeves. Matched with a mink scarf and helmet that seemed to anticipate the headdresses favoured by the Space Age fashion designers in later years, the coats were dedicated to all those women who loved muted elegance with a quirky twist.
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