Dissecting The "Retro Style" In Fashion Circle

Fashion is like a kind of reincarnation, retro has always been there.

With the increasing proportion of female power in the society in recent years, showing female power has become a hot spot in fashion trend. And the return of the ancient times also makes people pay attention to the era called "neoclassicism" again.

You may have heard of Baroque and Rococo. What is Neo classicism?

With the victory of the bourgeois revolution, a new thought rose in France after the Baroque period of Louis XIV and the Rococo period of Louis XV and Louis XVI. People abhor the extravagance and extravagance of monarchy and advocated the revitalization of ancient Greek and Roman art. In this period, neoclassicism prevailed.

Not only artists deliberately imitate ancient art, but also designers and architects follow suit.

The clothing of neoclassicism period is characterized by simplicity, classicality and healthy nature. It pursues natural and pure form. Compared with ancient Greek and Roman clothing, it has inheritance and breakthrough. One of the most prominent features is the rich and flexible bubble sleeves, simplified long skirt, ruff collar.

In today's day, such elements as bubble sleeve and ruff collar are still common, and bubble sleeve is one of the popular elements this summer.

Bubble sleeve is?

Bubble sleeve is a kind of sleeve with loose and bulging, full of feminization characteristics. It originated from the Renaissance in the 16th century, and was particularly popular in the neoclassicism period. Later, it evolved into various types such as bishop sleeve and sheep leg sleeve. This kind of sleeve is full of tension, especially the leg sleeve, which can shape the hourglass figure that women love very much. The Bishop's sleeve, which evolved from the clergy's costume, is a derivative of bubble sleeve and leg sleeve. It has a loose hem and shoulder line. It has a strong retro court style, adding a sense of magnificence and a sense of immortality at the same time.

It is also because of the variety of bubble sleeves and its modification and optimization of the proportion of women's body, bubble sleeves have been popular in recent years, and they are a common element in big brand shows.

Chanel: bubble sleeves are lady Coco's elegance

As always, in the hands of viniard and Virginia, the fashion is still in the hands of the old. Coco Chanel established Chanel's fashion sense and style. Sailor skirt, knitwear, trousers, little black skirt, camellia, pearl and tweed are still used and spread today. Such retro elements as bubble sleeves naturally appear in Chanel's shows.

In the spring and summer 2020 series, in addition to the familiar twill tweed, the combination of bubble sleeve and flower bud skirt is particularly special. The delicate details of the Bishop's sleeves make the white frock of the shirt with the delicate air, while the white frock of the shirt is endowed with the delicate air.

In Chanel's haute couture series 2020 / 21, more sheep leg sleeves appear. The exaggerated outline at the top and narrowing at the bottom, which integrates structuralism and architectural three-dimensional design into one, makes literature and art RETRO and gorgeous, creating a visual effect of width up and down narrow and waist line moving up.

Bubble sleeve elements also appear in Chanel's haute couture 2020 / 21 collection. The shirt made of silk gauze fabric is combined with light and flexible Bishop's sleeve, which is elegant; the classic twill soft cloth meets the leg sleeve, and the three-dimensional feeling comes; the off white Taffeta Wedding dress uses bubble sleeves with full silhouette, which highlights the ceremonial and gorgeous sense of the dress.

MOSCHINO: no one can compare with me on "strangeness"

Weird, humorous and playful, MOSCHINO's style is exaggerated and characteristic. MOSCHINO's design is always full of playful sense of game and humorous satire for fashion, full of imagination, or you can't even think of it.

Many stars like to wear MOSCHINO's clothes. Katy Perry likes MOSCHINO's pompous style and often appears in her concerts and MV.

In the autumn / winter 2020 women's wear series, MOSCHINO combined the towering and exaggerated headdress, cake skirt, huge skirt lining and candy color together. The design style is very dramatic. When a variety of incongruous elements appear, they are surprisingly harmonious. The Versailles trend is coming, and the use of bubble sleeves makes the clothing swim between the modern and the retro. At the same time, it is endowed with the modern locomotive punk feeling. At the same time, the collision between the high saturation color and the exaggerated noble riding clothes makes it wrapped in a sugar coat on the surrealism.

In the spring and summer 2020 series, MOSCHINO is inspired by Picasso paintings, and many famous paintings appear in the form of printed embroidery and three-dimensional cutting. It is a series full of Spanish style and interesting art. In this series, MOSCHINO still likes to make articles on the sleeves, and on the basis of bubble sleeves and leg sleeves, he enlarges the silhouette and puts up the clothes.

In addition to the big brand show, bubble sleeve element is also one of the common elements that can be seen everyday, and can be perfectly integrated with other elements.

When the bubble sleeve meets the lace

When the bubble sleeve meets the flower

When the bubble sleeve meets the check pattern

Are you back in the tide this summer?