Vintage A Cycle Of Life
'Vintage fashion a conventional subject like any other that's talked about again and again, like when you go to your grandparents and your granddad repeats the same story over and over or when you go down the pub and listen to the same banter from the locals or when its Christmas and you always get the reincarnation of ‘My Family’ on the TV. (Well sort of). A constant reference to the past being brought up again and again.
Vintage fashion, however over rated or hyped up you may find it; it is a good example of originality being recycled (in a good way). I don’t know if it is just me or not but as a British citizen I always find that Britain has a tradition to always go back to the past, either in politics, society, music and even fashion, to name a few.
The 21st century has seen an increase in vintage franchise popping up all over the place with more industries, groups and people being more involved in creating vintage inspired shops, music clothes ect.. This shows the ever so popular franchise of vintage fashion being brought together all over the world.
With fashion from the named eras we now see in our own 21st century designers the relation in designs of the present. From the 2010 fall seen a number of decades inspired clothing, that of the 40’s, right through to the 90’s. Fashion being one of the pinnacles of the past that has gone through generations and been recycled into a more modern alternative.
Fashion before hand has always had a significant meaning or reason for such a change. Take for example the 1940’s where women were bringing industry into a iconic fashion statement through the war time era, to the swinging 60’s where London was on the edge of a revolution and was fast becoming one of the worlds leading fashion involved cities, to the not so long ago 1980’s where depression left the streets of Britain there own unique style, to the power dressing of the working woman. Nowadays we do have life changing moments in life but never to change the face of fashion as much as the past has.
You can now see the influence through such designers like: Prada, Moschino, Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton & Mui Mui, to name a few. How they have taken the originality of vintage clothes and put there own stamp on it to create an alternative for the modern woman today. It also shows how powerful and iconic the moments were in pacific eras to keep the cycle going.
I was thinking of this today as a woman came into the shop which is, I have to admit a vintage clothes shop and was in awe of how many vintage shops were growing and how many people were passionate about it. She said to me‘ God I used to have a Laura Ashley dress just like this years ago, isn’t it funny how it all comes back around’. That’s the point the originality of such iconic past moments will constantly be recreated for numbers of years.'
I wrote this in Christmas 2010 and it got me thinking.. even though the 60's/70's/80's and even further back there were major iconic influences that helped fashion along we are still in the 21st century so when we look back at the iconic influences of nowadays, fashion will have it's purpose and differences and influences aswell as still being influenced constantly by the past as so much has been done. We have to be thankful for the designers today for helping our ever evolving fashion.
So in 2030 when i will be in my early 50's i still hope to be wearing a 'flattering' scarf print disco shirt with a pointed collar, pencil skirt and kitten heels.
With so many alternatives and modernisations happening with our clothes no wonder fashion keeps us on our toes.
