MADEMOISELLE PERLE: Trend Report S/S 2011

Friday 15 October 2010

Trend Report S/S 2011 - Dashing Disco Days

Liza Minelli & Mikhail Baryshnikov

in full action @ Studio 54

Flashback: somewhere during the nineteen seventies, Amber and me at the Montessori kindergarten. Amber was a perfect little angel with curly long blond hair and blue eyes. I was slightly obsessed with this girl because of her mother (and because at the age of four, she already had her own pony). Amber's mother permanently wore an enormous fur coat. Winter and summer. She accompanied Amber to school and picked her up dressed to the nines with layers of seventies style make-up and the perfect hair-do. To me, as a four year old, she was the personification of glamourous (much to my mother's horror, who probably thought of her as the personification of vulgarity...). What I liked about her, was that she was always dressed for some fabulous party. At 8.30 in the morning. I wanted to look exactly like her. I wanted life to look exactly like hers, as if there was something to celebrate every day, and not just on birthdays and Christmas. Her joie de vivre/ over-the-top fashion sense did influence me while only a decade later I often went to school as if it was Christmas (during summer, mind you). And today, I still like to do groceries shopping in some Couture kind of princess dress and to-die-for heels at 10 o'clock in the morning. I mean why just dress up for fancy events, if we can dress up every day? And Amber's mom? Well years later, when I discovered the stories about Studio 54, I often thought of her. How she would have fit in perfectly...

Tell me, did you also have some obsession with a glamourous mother at the school yard? Or am I the only one, who at the age of four, was already intoxicated with style and fashion????

Halston, Bianca Jagger, Jack Haley jr, Liza Minelli, Michael Jackson @ Studio 54

Anyway, back to the trend report: When the news broke in the beginning of this year that SJP would take over the creative reigns at HALSTON many eyebrows were raised in the fashion industry. Then a few months later, in spring, the documentary “Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston” by Whitney Sudler- Smith premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. It affected a few designers, because unlike the seventies influences we've seen the past seasons, the specific Halston look, that Studio 54 air, seriously hit the catwalks this season. If it's up to the designers, next summer will be almost as sizzling as those dashing disco days... If only...