New York Fashion Week kicks off in two day's time, opening another bulimic season of useless clamour without real glamour and elegance. If you browse the Internet, you will easily stumble upon features trying to forecast trends for the Spring/Summer 2014 season, or pieces focusing on the inspiration of this or that designer for the new collection. The references highlighted by some designers (and some rather horrid sketches) in a few of these pieces unfortunately reveal the lack of quality in some of these collections, probably caused by the lack of research time.
So let's leave behind the horror to take refuge in the past as inspiring place. This image is taken from an Italian weekly magazine from the late '50s; the picture accompanied a piece about geometry in fashion for the Autumn/Winter 1959 season and shows an outfit by Pierre Cardin that featured a jacket characterised by a rectangular silhouette with deep pleats around the shoulders from which the sleeves protruded (there was also a sleeveless version of this jacket). Originally this suit came in dahlia red and was accompanied by the flower bouquet headdress donned by the model in this photograph.
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