If this year’s Fashion Academy exhibition, about time: fashion and duration, or the constant COVID difference between the time in your head and the time on the clock does not consolidate the concept that time is variable for you, maybe the runway will Do tricks. Looking at the acid yellow, orange, tomato, cyan and maroon series in 2021, it will make people feel familiar; the appearance of each color block is almost exactly the same as the appearance in the 2011 series.
At that time, under the impetus of Jil Sander, Prada, Prabal Gurung, Thakoon’s Raf Simons, and many other designers who stitched clothes into contrasting tones, color blocks were about to become the defining aesthetic of 20-year-olds. At J.Crew, Jenna Lyons pushed the styling to the mainstream, turning the world into a super-saturated glittering rainbow.
“Ten signs that you can enjoy clothes again,” reads the style.com homepage banner retelling the best spring 2011 fashion show. In the downturn of the economic recession in 2008, when fashion became sparse, strict and thin, people were allowed to feel exhilarating and happy with clothing. “Failure-proof black now looks lifeless and boring,” Sarah Mower wrote in the September 2011 issue of Vogue. “I think this new wave of colors is of seismic importance because of the way it penetrates into the tailoring-jackets, coats and pants, which have been set as the default black since the 1980s.”
During the 2020 depression, the most glamorous outfits in the 2021 spring collection also offered a similar probation. A large number of cobalt blue and magenta appeared in Raf Simons’s women’s debut, a tomato and cyan mix appeared in Daniel Lee’s Bottega Veneta vacation series, and Virgil Abloh’s acid yellow and maroon appeared in Louis Vuitton men’s clothing. At the most basic level, color blocks provide order, a system of color coding, where what goes and where, just like the digital paint of a Vitruvian man. This is not to reduce the fun or efficacy of color blocks-ease and order are good, especially in a year of restlessness and chaos.
Color-coded fashion is also a palette cleaner-no prints, no fuss! -And attractive optical skills. Back in 2011, when Instagram was just getting started and street style was changing from a niche news practice to an industry itself, contrasting the most outrageous neon tones was a promising way to attract attention. Reports by Phil Oh in 2011 and 2012 proved this: Elisa Nalin’s coral paired with lemon, Hanne Gaby Odiele paired with cherry red and cream turquoise. It’s hard to look back at Oh’s photos and you won’t find any flashes of neon pink, electric violet or acid yellow.
So why not adopt this style again in 2021? “It’s time to be bold,” Miuccia Prada told Style.com of her minimalist Baroque collection in 2010. This information will never be out of date.
© 2021 Condé Nast. all rights reserved. By using this website, you accept our user agreement and privacy policy and cookie statement, as well as your California privacy rights. As part of our affiliate partnership with retailers, Vogue may receive a portion of sales from products purchased through our website. Without the prior written permission of Condé Nast, the materials on this website may not be copied, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used. Ad selection
Post time: Oct-22-2021