For years, designers and magazine editors alike have cried: “Everything old is new again!” Fashion has always turned to the past for inspiration. In recent years runway trends have swooped, pendulum style, from the swinging sixties to nineties grunge and back again, pausing at each and every decade in between. Touting the 1960s as the new spring trend feels a bit redundant, but when it’s featured on the pages of nearly every fashion periodicals’ January issue, it becomes undeniable. The 60s are back again...again.
Issues of a lack of innovation, and the failures of we aughties to produce our own youth culture aside, I really can’t complain about this latest 60s resurgence. There is a reason designers return over and over to certain iconic looks of the past—they work.
There is something timeless, particularly in those early 60s silhouettes. This particular sixtiesaissance seems to evoke Warhol’s factory and London’s Carnaby Street, while skipping any campy homage to San Francisco’s Summer of Love. While the continuing relevance of patchwork and flower power is debatable, a Mary Quant mini skirt never goes out of style.
Many fashion magazines this month have offered up their own interpretations of the look, the best of which comes from NYLON. The magazine’s January Issue is devoted entirely to mods and rockers, with a special tribute to Beatlemania. Even cover girl Dianna Agron is impeccably styled in the likeness of iconic model Twiggy. I recommend picking up a copy for inspiration if you think you might try your own spin on swinging sixties style.
NYLON, January 2012
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