“Me, I am lunar… and realistic, he reminded “ Stiletto” in early 2020 as a retrospective in his honor opened in New York. Equally inspired by space and new lifestyles (in particular the conquest of the job market by women), Pierre Cardin is also committed to dressing them up for the future. If Courrèges and his white boots, his little trapeze dress, his mini-skirt and his cropped jacket caught the attention of the time, he is not the only one. today with its automation of creation and its disappearance of personal retouching.īut back to the style and the 60’s.
After this resounding start, the designer will not stop transforming the industry itself, unveiling a few years later his Couture Future collection, a draft of ready-to-wear as we still know it today. Haute Couture classics that make the success of the big houses. Ultra-modern and served by hitherto never-used accessories such as sunglasses and hats from another age, the look is in total opposition to the yé-yé outfit that was all the rage at the time, but also very far from the models.
When André Courrèges unveiled his “Moon Girl” collection in 1964, his straight cuts as well as his pronounced use of white (the color of the future, according to him) placed his fashion in a category of its own. Worn by couturiers with a futuristic vision such as Pierre Cardin, André Courrèges or Paco Rabanne, the boundaries of the universe are also widening to allow ready-to-wear to emerge.
In the 1960s, while the United States and Russia were engaged in a frantic race for the Moon, the little microcosm of fashion also discovered a new world.
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