Fashion?s Flaunting of Flamboyance & Luxury Has Evolved
From Roberto Cavalli's loud prints to Claude Montana's big silhouettes ?flamboyance is fading into oblivion as the fashion industry shifts into the era of "quiet luxury".
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Death of 80s Extravagance
Roberto Cavalli
2024 has seen the death of 80s fashion legends Claude Montana and Roberto Cavalli. Both were known for their influence on fashion with their own take on flamboyance and ostentatious elegance. Montana helped define the power-woman dressing movement of the 1980s while Cavalli shaped his era-defining glamour through his signature mix of loud animal prints. These fashion behemoths were the creative geniuses of their era because they understood how to translate what luxury meant to a woman ? or rather what that era of luxury meant to women of the time, through nuanced sartorial choices.
Claude Montana
The 80s were a time of contention. The world was going through growing tensions and power struggles of the Cold War, the AIDS epidemic, a rise in conservatism, and neoliberal economic ideology brought on by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, the fight against apartheid in South Africa alongside the rise of feminism and the women’s rights movement. These social issues were subliminally reflected the collections seen on the runways at the time.
Claude Montana
Big-shouldered jackets, sculpted silhouettes, androgynous-chic models were the emb...
The post Fashion’s Flaunting of Flamboyance & Luxury Has Evolved appeared first on LUXUO.
Death of 80s Extravagance
Roberto Cavalli
2024 has seen the death of 80s fashion legends Claude Montana and Roberto Cavalli. Both were known for their influence on fashion with their own take on flamboyance and ostentatious elegance. Montana helped define the power-woman dressing movement of the 1980s while Cavalli shaped his era-defining glamour through his signature mix of loud animal prints. These fashion behemoths were the creative geniuses of their era because they understood how to translate what luxury meant to a woman ? or rather what that era of luxury meant to women of the time, through nuanced sartorial choices.
Claude Montana
The 80s were a time of contention. The world was going through growing tensions and power struggles of the Cold War, the AIDS epidemic, a rise in conservatism, and neoliberal economic ideology brought on by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, the fight against apartheid in South Africa alongside the rise of feminism and the women’s rights movement. These social issues were subliminally reflected the collections seen on the runways at the time.
Claude Montana
Big-shouldered jackets, sculpted silhouettes, androgynous-chic models were the emb...
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