Who better than Sophia Loren, Jane Birkin, Jackie Kennedy and Audrey Hepburn for inspiration mode of his summer look? These vintage icons gives us a lesson in style to stay chic even when it’s hot. Demonstration.
Fashion is an eternal and the history of fashion is a true source of inspiration.
Today, we swear by Gigi Hadid, Kylie Jenner, and Rihanna. Yesterday, we looked up to Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, or to Ava Gardner. At some reality about television, the world has not really changed.
Out of inspiration mode to find your summer style? Travel back in time in the dressing room of vintage icons.
Vintage fashion: fashion was the 1940s and the 1950s
Ava Gardner and Elizabeth Taylor are the true icons of the 1940s. Styles that are sometimes found with the evening dresses in silk and Bare shoulders.
Ava Gardner on the beach, it’s the Queen of the bikini. Avant-garde of its time, it appears, in 1943, such a naiad. High waist but still bikini panties.
Elizabeth Taylor, she, is a true fashion icon. These looks are copied and revisited in the years after. In summer, the actress know wear the midi skirt at the end of the 1940s. A pair of sandals, a neck-shoulder top and the turn is played.
In the 1950s, it’s Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy, Audrey Hepburn and Brigitte Bardot that take over. Marilyn assumes its pinup look while Audrey Hepburn shows rather a wise look with some dresses summer ultra fifties.
Jackie Kennedy, before even that she becomes first lady, was already a fashion icon. Shorts and straw hat, she wears to perfection the essential mode of the summer.
And then Brigitte Bardot that “on the abandoned Beach” in the 1950s and 60 making her look a real industry of inspiration.
Vintage fashion: fashion was the 1960s and early 1970s
Sophia Loren, already. In the 1960s, the beautiful Italian dead screen and his style is copied by all. She is the epitome of glamour. Always elegant, she knows to the summer season of Sophia.
Grace Kelly has a gift: one to tie a scarf as a person. Sunglasses butterfly and dress from the years sixties, the Princess of Monaco was very elegant.
And then, the 1970s and Jane… Jean flare and white t-shirt, Jane Birkin, it’s the icon mode of a generation. Modern, she always knew to have fun with the essential mode of dressing
And for you, what is your vintage fashion icon?