scostumista: June 2020

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

THE DISCREET CHARM OF A WHITE COLLAR

This simple detail has no time, a white collar gives a touch of class to a black dress. The reference to Pierrot’s maxi-collar in the 6o's Valentino dress is evident, while the historical references from which Alessandro Michele starts for Gucci recall the fashion of the fifteenth century. Heidi Slimane has a more discreet style, a small Pierrot collar makes Celine’s dress unique.

Valentino 1960

Gucci F/W 2020-21

Celine F/W 2020-21

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

THE TOMBOY STYLE - FROM EARLY 900's UNTILL NOW

The gender-bending was broken almost a century ago, thanks to young and strong women like Coco Chanel and Marlene Dietrich. Since then many women start to wear men's clothes and we remember many past icons to date whose style is characterized by wearing men's clothes. From Jean Seaberg, Diane Keaton, Lauren Hutton to the recent looks of Cara Delavigne and Kristen Stewart. The idea that there are girl activities and clothing, and that there are boy activities and clothing, is often reinforced by the tomboy concept. Tomboyism can be seen as both refusing gender roles and traditional gender conventions, but also conforming to gender stereotypes. As for fashion, tomboy style never goes out of style, but there will always be a tomboy style that characterizes an era.

Marlene Dietrich

Coco Chanel

1920

1925

1950

Katharine Hepburn 40's

Jean Seberg 60's

Diane Keaton during 60's

Twiggy during 70's

Laurent Hutton by Steven Meisel 90's

Winona Ryder 90's

Jenny Shimizu early 2000's

Kristen Stewart 2016

Ruby Rose 2017

Cara Delavigne 2019

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

CHANEL CRUISE 2020-21

The Chanel first collection presented virtually. Forget the spectacular fashion shows at the Palais Royal during the Karl Lagerfeld direction, Virginie Viard is is much simpler and more discreet, and above all the show has been online because lockdown. Initially the collection has been scheduled to show in Capri on May 7. "Initially I had Capri in mind, where the show was supposed to take place, but didn't happen in the end because of lockdown. So we had to adapt: not only did we decide to use fabrics that we already had, but the collection, more generally, evolved towards a trip around the Mediterranean... The islands, the scent of the eucalyptus, the pink shades of the bougainvillea," explained designer Viard in a press release. The collection drew inspiration from legendary actresses of the 1960s, who nonchalantly took advantage of the Mediterranean sun with simple, light, chic and casual clothes, which, like long skirts that can also be worn as bustier dresses, were at times multi-functional.
Too bad, it would have been nice to see these clothes presented in our beautiful Capri!

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

VIBRANT COMBINATIONS

SPRING/SUMMER 2020

Victoria Beckham

Rochas

Vivetta

Balmain

Gucci

Luisa Spagnoli

Marni

MSGM

Monday, June 8, 2020

3 STEPS WITH 3 FILORGA MASKS

With these Filorga masks the brand oxygenate, nourish, plump, smooth, and brighten my skin.

1° step:Reoxigenating exfoliating mask. I really love that mask, already during the application I feel my skin reoxigenate. Perlite spheres exfoliate the skin while a proteolic enzyme boosts skin desquamation. When the scrub is completed, the texture trasforms into an active mousse. Micro-bubble of oxygen are released to enable suffocate skin to breathe.

After rinsing-off the scrub mask I apply the Oxygen glow mask: in 10 minutes this mask boosts radiance instantly of the skin. It's formulated with the brand's Super-Skin Boosting Factors complex, which combines an energizing oxygen-releaser, a smoothing hyaluronic acid to provide a plumper appearance and clarifying L-enzyme to leave skin looking flawless day after day.

Finally, I choose a sheet mask. White if I want to hydrate and black if I want to regenerate.

Hydra -Filler mask, the white, an impregnation formula of hyaluronic acid combined with NMFs-Natural Moisturising Factor-saturates the skin with water for an intense hydra-plumping effect and the vitamins of aloe vera for an ultra bright effect.

Time-Filler mask, the black, that give us double smoothing effect- tightening and filling- the impregnation formula with natural-origin collagen and cell booster stimulates skin regeneration.
Both leave them to work for 15 minutes.

Thursday, June 4, 2020

THE 20's ARE FUCHSIA

Playing with a 90's fuchsia silk slip dress and a blonde wig, I hardly recognize myself. Years ago at a carnival party I dressed up as Barbie: blonde wig and fuchsia dress, arrived at the party I greeted my friends and no one recognized me. Actually, I don’t feel much blonde, but for this dress I had to be blonde.