Is fashion an eternal restart? In any case, the fashionable houses and labels seem to have confirmed it during the previous Fashion Week: this season, the trend is for the skirt suit. A revival 50’s that the personalities have already hastened to adopt. Zoom on this timeless piece which, even today, continues to shape the style of the French woman.
The skirt suit: a must in the women’s wardrobe
Now a classic in women’s wardrobes, the skirt suit was introduced in the 1900s by the English fashion house John Redfern. If it was then little considered by haute couture, it gradually imposed itself as the uniform of the active woman, propelled by the evening suit of Lanvin appeared in 1934. In the late 1940s/early 1950s, Chanel et Dior reveal respectively a tweed version and a suit with a corolla skirt. The fashion for the skirt suit was born. The success of this set is such that it becomes the symbol of French elegance.
Chanel spring-summer 1959 collection
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The skirt suit, star of the fall-winter 2023-2024 collections
During the presentation of their fall-winter 2023-2024 collections, fashion houses competed in style to bring this timeless piece back to life. If the house Chanel stayed true to her signature tweed suit, Saint Laurent par Anthony Vaccarello bet on a version more boyish, characterized by dramatic lines and frank shoulders. The common point between the two designers: the skirts that stop above the knee in a perfectly assumed vintage spirit.
Chanel haute couture fall-winter 2023-2024
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Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello fall-winter 2023-2024
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Personalities swear by the skirt suit this fall
And if it conquered the catwalks, the skirt suit also seems to be unanimous with the personalities. The proof, on August 31, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley was spotted in Paris wearing a cream skirt suit which she paired with a pair of sandals Chanelan aviator frame and a canvas handbag Valentino.
2023-09-01 15:27:15
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