Jumpsuit

During the industrial revolution, this working garment became very popular, and then, represented the main working clothes in factories, the uniform of fighter pilots and paratroopers in the II world war.

Properly called "boilersuit" or "coverall" made of heavy canvas or denim, designed to protect workers' street clothes and bodies from oil, soot, grime, sparks and other workplace hazards. 

As well as that women who has replaced men in factories during the war, Jumpsuits were their main garment. Then, during the disco era, jumpsuits was present but in a fashionable option, adorning with flashy colours and flashes. Become a symbol of eccentricity - not always in good taste - It becomes the holding of favourite scene pop stars cuch as Madonna, Britney and celine Dion.

From Factories to Catwalk.

The Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli designed a bunker following a light-blue hooded jumpsuit, braided decorations on cuffs, ankles and waist-line, and a cross-body water bottle.
The futuristic connotation is clear, When The jumpsuit is the suit of sci-fi fiction. For example, the Star Trekturned shiny bi-color jumpsuit Into a cult room.

70's Casual and Disco music

Disco came to be associated with both culture and fashion, and was at the zenith in the late 1970's. The fashion crowd favoured the New York club Xenon, which had a reputation for a more extreme interpretation of the disco look and where dancers cavorted in cages wearing only Spandex leotards and body glitter. In 1977 disco was thrust into mainstream culture by the popularity of the movie Saturday Night Fever, the high point of the disco boom. 

on Stage 

Memorables rock stars, on stage, the flared jumpsuits and over-decorated, embroidered in gold and completed by a short mantle, seen on an exhilarating Elvis Presley. Characterized by a glam and psychedelic vide, the striped jumpsuit with exaggerated cut, worn by David Bowie in the role of the androgynous alter ego Ziggy Starddust in 1972. Unforgettable check the black and white jumpsuit is Freddie Mercury and the diamond-print one on Mick Jagger.

Elvis, Nick Jagger, David Bowie, Freddy Mercury 

90's Glamorous decadence

The Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace (1946-1997) and Dolce & Gabbana celebrated the the return of high-voltage fashion during the 1990's. 

Flamboyant print jumpsuit by Versace, 1990's.

In the early 2010, luxuries brands by Saint Laurent, Alexander Wang using silk fabrics, purple and hooded for Diane Von Furstenberg, pink patterns by Marc Jacobs, or horizontal stripes - a trademark- at Sonia Rykiel.

Ready to wear, Saint Laurent Spring 2014.

Summer 2010. Among the Most Famous jumpsuit, the floral-printed one by Stella McCartney, the multi-pocket one by Givenchy, the one made of silk plaid by Prada. Pixie Geldof Attended the H & M flagship store opening in London and has Wore shorts jumpsuit mustard. Erin Wasson Attended a party in Los Angeles wearing Prada The Above Mentioned room. Elettra Wiedemann and Helena Christensen Wore loose jumpsuits and long: the first Attended a Swarovski cocktail wearing an orange number, while the second Was spotted at a party for Antony Todd wearing a jumpsuit with no accessories. Was Rihanna snapped in Los Angeles wearing the floral, ultra-girly and frilled jumpsuit by Stella McCartney.

Zara Jumpsuit Summer 2021.

Indecent Proposal

From Nell Gwynn to Vivian Ward, the Julia Roberts character in the film Pretty Woman, the figure of the prostitutes has seduced or pitiful the audience along the history.
So, Why one of the oldest profession is still such interesting in fashion, art and films ?

On September 22nd 2015, at the  Musee d'Orsay in Paris I show one of the most interesting exhibition about this subject: "Splendour and Misery", a fascinated collection of important french and foreign artists, who were atracted and  involved in prostitution in the most different ways and artistic techniques.

So, let me show you one of my favourites paintings, collections, films pictures, which were represented the woman as an object of seduction and the fashion as well. 

in Art

Dante Rossetti, Lady Lilith, 1866

Edgar Degas, L'Absinthe 1875-76, Musée d'Orsay

 

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the salon of the Rue de Moulins, 1894

in Films

Dangerous Liaisons 1989. 

Catherine Deneveuve in Belle de Jour (1967)

Pretty Woman (1990)

In Fashion Show

Mario Testino Shoot, UK Vogue March 2013

Versace Collection 2012/13 Fall / Winter Haute-Couture.

Louis Voitton, 2013 

Saint Laurent collection 2015

Death became fashionable

A woman in a full mourning dress became the emblematic icon of bereavement in Europe and America during the 19th century. At the time when mortality rates were much higher than they are today, particularly during childbirth and infancy, and the average life expectacy was less than fifty, the loss of the love one was a familiar experience. Formal ritual of bereavement aided in memorializing the death, and mourning attire was subject to increasingly complex code of etiquette and fashion.

Mourning dress served as a visual symbol of grief and of respect for the deceased while simultaneously demostrating the wearer's status, taste, and level of propriety.

By the 1860's, graceful, styish mouring prevailed in Europe and The United States, available from array of mourning warehouses and private dressmakers.

Although fashion magazines and etiquette manuals typically advocated simplicity as the guiding principle of style, even deepest mourning attire could conform to every nuance of fashionable dress, replicating not only its silhouette but also its ornate forms of embellishment.

during the 1870s, fashion columns frequently advised combinations of black and white for periods of lighter mourning, as an elegant alternative to gray or purple, which were classed as outmoded.

Black is more than ever the favorite colour of fashion. there was a time -our mothers will remember it- when the sole fact of wearing a black dress when one was bot in mourning was sufficient to call forth a kind of reprobation, and to cause the wearer to be classed among the the dangerously eccentric women. 

                                                                                       - Harper's Bazaar (August 9, 1870)

Dress worn by Queen Alexandra the year following Queen Victoria's death.

These evening gowns express the opulence of court dress in tones of half-mourning. On the gown by Henriette Favre, a couturiere whose clients incluided ladies of the English court and american women of style.

The whole feeling with regard to the wearing of mourning has undergone a change. In former days the custom of wearing mourning had a double significance: it was considered to be a sign of respect for the dead, and at the same time it announce the seclution of the mourner......
The war has done still more towards moderating the old customs in regard to mourning.

                                                                              American Vogue 1918

Texts and pictures of the exhibition "Death Becomes Her: A century of Mourning Attire", Metropolitan Museum, New York, Through February 1st, 2015.

Fashion & Art.

This week I've started a new exhibition and I think it will be the most Successful one of the year. 
Somerset House has opened its doors putting the spotlight on the woman who helped catapult McQueen to international acclaim, Isabella Blow. 
Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore! not only piles of dresses of the fashion editor and stylist, who tragically took her own life in 2007, but also explores her significance on late 20th and early 21st-century fashion through her relationship with the two designers she was closest to: McQueen and Philip Treacy.
This exhibition wouldn’t have been possible otherwise, thanks to Daphne Guinness, who stopped an auction at Christie’s  by buying the collection in its entirety.

In the last decade, Fashion has been an important key in museums and galleries worldwide, so, this is a list of main fashion exhibitions. 

If you have any of these close you, please, try to visit it.!!!!! 

Sao Paulo, Brazil

The little Black Jacket,  Museo da Cidade, Sao Paulo, Brazil
October 31 - December 1. 2013

Mexico DF

Las apariencias engañan (Apparearances are deceptive) the dresses of Frida Kahlo.Frida Kahlo museo, Mexico City, Mexico

Paris, France

Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) Jeu de Paume, Paris

from 15/10/2013 till 26/01/2014

Bern, Switzerland

Private Marilyn. Spielzeug Welten Museum in Basel, Bern, Switzerland.

open until 6th April 2014.

If you are fan of the most famous Hollywood Icon, it's your opportunity to find this unique exhibition in Switzerland. More than 700 original memorabilia and personals items of Marilyn Monroe will displayed in Bern for the first time.

London, UK

Hello, My name is Paul Smith.  Design Museum, London

Celebrating his career in fashion, Paul Smith exhibition

Bath, UK

Georgian Fashion.  Fashion Museum, Bath, UK

From 25. january 2014 until 1 january 2015.  This exhibition will present a selection of the finest fashions worn of 18th century life.

New York, USA

The Fashion world of Jean Paul Gaultier, Brooklyn Museum, New York

If you lost the oportunity to see this exhibition at the Barbican (like me) and you have plans to go to the Big Apple between october 2013 and and february 2014, it would be fantastic to do it.

Ontario, Canada

David Bowie is   Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada

Florence, IT

The Amazing Shoemaker   Ferragamo Museum, Florence, IT

Antonio Lopez Exhibition

Mayfair celebrates 70 years of Antonio Lopez.

Antonio López  (1943-1987) was one of the important fashion illustrators of the last century whose works dominated magazines like Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle and interview throughout the 60's, 70's and 80's.
Born in Puerto Rico, Antonio moved to New York city with his family when he was 7 years old. He dropped out of the fashion institute of technology to pursue a position at Women's daily and later moved on to the New York Times.
His studio in New York, where he created works under the moniker Antonio with his partner Juan Ramos was a creative and eccentric meeting place for the glamorous group of  friends surrounding him such as Andy Warhol, grace Jones, Bill Cunningham, Jerry Hall, Jessica Lange and Karl Lagerfeld.

Till October 20th, East of Mayfair will be hosting a special seiling exhibiton of works by this legendary fashion illustrator at the Roland Mouret concept store house at 8 Carlos Place, London W1.

Bill Blass For American Vogue 1983

Valentino For Vanity Fair. 1982

Mademoiselle 1965

Mick Jagger, 1983

More Personals pictures about his life.

His eternal Muse & Friend, Jerry

Jerry, Karl & Antonio