01movements
Mod: How British Teenagers Killed Parisian Fashion in the 1960s
Carnaby Street, the Vespa, a geometric mini, a bob cut to the jawline. The youth-culture uprising that, for the first time in fashion history, dictated the terms to Paris.
The Era
1950s New Look
Dior's wasp waist, the ascendance of haute couture, and a postwar romance with volume and femininity.
Dispatches
Essays from the 1950s New Look Era
02movements
The New Look: Why Women Rioted Over a Dress in 1947
Christian Dior’s February 1947 collection used twenty yards of fabric per skirt at a moment when British women were rationed to two. The reaction was adoration, fury, and an industry rebuilt overnight.
03iconic garments
Le Smoking: Yves Saint Laurent Dresses Women in Tuxedos
In August of 1966, an evening tuxedo appeared on a Paris runway. The model was a woman. The century shifted, quietly, on its heel.
04designers
Christian Dior's New Look: Femininity Reimagined
February 12, 1947. A gallery on the Avenue Montaigne. A wasp waist, a calf-length skirt, and a continent of rationed fabric—undone in a single collection.
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