THE NEW FLAPPERS

• Vogue cover from January 15-1928.

Always I have being felt attracted for the Roaring Twenties, period of sustained economic prosperity, an era of utilitarian aesthetic, where the spirit was marked by new technologies, especially automobiles, and moving pictures that in parallel with the jazz and dancing they rose in popularity  in opposition to the mood of the specter of the World War I (1914-1918);  a liberal period and was then when the Flappers, the "new breed" of young Western women had their origins, those girls who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to Jazz, drinking, and they made flaunted their disdain for what was then considered an acceptable behavior. 

And The New Flappers, is how I call to this collection from Italian designer Roberto Cavalli, that was inspired in the glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age (1927-1963), decade marked by Great Depression of the 30s, and  World War II (1939- 1945).

• FLAPPERS- The Roaring Twenties video.

Focusing on the beginning of Hollywood's Golden Age, period also known as the Jazz Age, Cavalli presented their Spring Summer 2014 Collection composed of sophisticated outfits full of rich fabrics, textures and a beautiful misty colors palette.

• The color palette is composed of shiny tones as silver, and icy and dusty tints as lilac, mauve, rosewood, mint, supported by traditional neutrals as black, gray and white. Mystic colors for a sophisticated and chic collection.

• The long accessories were used to accentuate the lengthy silhouettes that give to the wearers a visual effect of more height.

• Languid and unstructured silhouettes are the common denominator in this very wearable collection and adjustable to every feminine shape.

• Shiny leathers, furs like chinchilla and mink, (that I hope will be fake furs), laces, brocades, embroidery, and morbid color gradient fabrics as chiffon, evoke the glamour of Hollywood Golden Age.

• Cutting lines, evoking the 20s, are visible in this white lace dress.

• The French orientalism from the 20s, could not miss and, is present through the Kaftan, utilitarian garment from the Middle East and North Africa, blending comfort and luxury.

• Roberto Cavalli, Spring Summer 2014 Collection.