Succulent Chicago's 40's

Strenuous, stern, sensational and stimulating but is it really new?
This autumn Gucci couture played it safe- opting for a well-known but forgotten [they wish!] 
40's - embellishing the frocks with designers' colour interpretation, which admittedly looks absolutely stunning...other than that we've seen it all before. But still, an intricate colour of pickled cherry and variations of all possible fruits in their 'rottening' metastases in place of usual kaki, shitty and vomit-like-ochre crossed with boggy greens (if in tweed) - very nice indeed.
Thank you for a reminder. 

And today's inspiration Ayn Rand 'The Fountainhead'

- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041386/

and definitely her Dominique Taggart from 'The Atlas Shrugged'

Colour shuffling - inspirations from the past

I love the fact that instead of the white fragments on the skirt's pattern designer has used the pale beige. A typical feature of 60's - 80's era. This nostalgic and rather psychological effect gives the outfit a hint of pensiveness and thereby withholds it from the roller-coaster of aggressive rage of colour-smashing.

Although the picture fails to deliver the precise colours, it is still very much dynamic and bright.

Looking at this beautiful flare skirt brings me back to the childhood. My Godmother had the funky curtains in the kitchen to hide the closet section where the rubbish bin used to live. The fabric's print was very much like the one on the left. I always called them 'nuts' to myself. And what about the spherical 'nuts' lamps everyone (including my family) had in those days.

The National Front Museum in Latvia still has got one.