Men look from the 20’s
I love jazz music and I love the 20's Fashion, to me the era when women and men were best dressed and the era that was the base and birth of the contemporary man look. I think that if I had lived in a bygone era, was in the 20s, in the Jazz Age.
The Jazz Age was a feature of the 1920s (ending with The Great Depression) when jazz music and dance became popular.
The Jazz Age was a feature of the 1920s (ending with The Great Depression) when jazz music and dance became popular.
When I say Jazz, is coming to my mind the King Of Jazz Louis Armstrong (1901 – 1971), who was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana, whom coming to prominence in the 1920s as an "inventive" trumpet and cornet player, becoming a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the focus of the music from collective improvisation to solo performance.
With his instantly-recognizable gravelly voice, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. He was also skilled at scat singing (vocalizing using sounds and syllables instead of actual lyrics).
Renowned for his charismatic stage presence and voice almost as much as for his trumpet-playing, Armstrong's influence extends well beyond jazz music and by the end of his career in the 1960s, he was widely regarded as a profound influence on popular music in general. Armstrong was one of the first truly popular African-American entertainers to "cross over", whose skin-color was secondary to his music in an America that was severely racially divided. He rarely publicly politicized his race, often to the dismay of fellow African-Americans, but took a well-publicized stand for desegregation during the Little Rock Crisis. His artistry and personality allowed him socially acceptable access to the upper echelons of American society that were highly restricted for a black man.
At Milan Fashion Week (MFW), the design duo Dsquared2 have presented his Fall 2013 male collection, named La Nouvelle Noir (The New Black), inspired in the Jazz Age, highlighting the fashion of the 20s Jazz scenes, but with a new language because they mixing the impeccable 'Gatsby' men look from the 20’s with Denim fabric, giving an affordable and wearable aspect to the new collection that for sure will have a great acceptation between the young guys.
This catwalk featured with all ebony models to accent the leitmotiv Le Nouvelle Noir.
The reinvention of the double-breasted coats, long until hips, is a focal point of this collection, giving to this garment from the 20's, a contemporary and modern vision.
Like at the 20s when the round frames (horn rims or metal), were worn by men and women with no style difference between the sexes, the models wore on the runway.
Key items from the Gatsby' men look, like the classic vest or sweater vest, are present in the new DSquared2 collecion.
The combination of textures, and colors with the denim fabric, give to this collection, the accentuated and subtle combinations, of current fashion trends.
The colors palette are composed mostly of 'tinta unita'
colors (solid colors), monochromatic tones, black, brown, camel, blue, salmon,
red, ivory, white, red, and greens both
military and textures like Scottish.
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The military tendency is present in this look with a khaki shirt, the cargo pants, braces connected with belt, handbags and Army Berets.
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The models complemented the look donning mohair 10 gallon Fedora hat.
When something has a good fashion language, we do not need to talk much about it, the collection speaks for itself.
When something has a good fashion language, we do not need to talk much about it, the collection speaks for itself.
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