We often mention architectural styles nowadays in fashion reviews, thinking they are an invention of our modern times. But designers have been playing with architectural inspirations for decades as proved by previous posts focused on designs from the '60s for example. So, for today, let's go back to the '50s, to be precise to 1953, to discover some architectural ensembles.
The first and last photographs in this post feature two designs that are not attributed to any particular fashion house, but they show an architectural derivation.
The first image shows a jacket with a capelet and a collar that extended into the hem, almost imitating the shape of a Möbius strip and forming a sort of muff or handwarmer rather than a proper pocket. The last design in this post shows instead a collarless silk coat in the redingote style characterised by rigorous lines. The coat featured a detachable collar that softened the rigid lines of the design, adding to it a frivolous note as the collar could have been turned into an elegant, and slightly flamboyant, striped scarf.
And talking about the redingote style, you get another example of redingote in the design on the left in the second image in this post, showing a coat by tailor Raphael, in a grey and yellow velvet wool matched with a grey dress. The coat on the right, by Givenchy, featured instead an asymmetrical fastening and a geometrical fur collar.
The third image in this post features a skirt suit by Serge Kogan in a dark forest green: the skirt retained a classical line that fell below the knee, but the jacket, cinched at the waist, had an asymmetrical fastening and ample panels of fabrics inspired by the shape of kimono that created a voluminous effect on the back of the garment. The dynamic shoes were more Space Age, rather than architectural and they referenced early sci-fi films from the '50s.
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