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MIYAKE MAGIC 🖤 NAOKI TAKIZAWA for ISSEY MIYAKE Spring / Summer 2003 Black Cotton Bias Cut Dress exclusively @uncommthreadstore

Issey Miyake’s 2003 collections, designed by Naoki Takizawa, featured innovative architectural pleating, fluid draping, and sculptural fabric manipulation.

#isseymiyake #naokitakizawa #vintagemiyake #vintagefashion #lavintage by @sarahaaronson

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V for VENDETTA 🖤 RAF SIMONS for JIL SANDER Spring / Summer 2007 Black Halter Open Back Dress exclusively @uncommthreadstore

“I wanted energy,” Raf Simons said of a Jil Sander presentation that read as a mandate for sense and simplicity. “And to show that the collection is not only for the needs of young women.” Among the dispiriting confusion of beige and junior disco-flash that has bogged down Milan, Simons took on challenges that other designers have been frantically avoiding: working on a pantsuit, coming up with strategies to modernize a dress, making clothes that just might apply to the life of a high-achieving woman.” - Sarah Mower for Vogue

#rafsimons #jilsander #minimalism #vintageitaliandesign #vintagejilsander by @sarahaaronson

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RED RIGHT HAND ❤️ ANN DEMEULEMEESTER Spring / Summer 2009 Red Orange Satin Embroidered Drape Jacket exclusively @uncommonthreadstore

“The power of an Ann Demeulemeester show is that even if you aren’t a card-carrying member of her club, there’ssomething in it for you. For Spring, she showed numerous permutations of her signature look: an unstructured jacket cinched at the back, shown this season with a draped and cowled blouse and narrow cropped trousers. The most striking example, though, came not in black and white (the prototypical Demeulemeester palette) but in coral and nude. The relaxed jacket was a few shades lighter than the bunched and undulating top beneath it, and the pants were candy striped in the same unexpected colors.” - Nicole Phelps for Vogue

#anndemeulemeester #antwerpsix #belgianfashion #lavintage #demeulemeester by @sarahaaronson

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WIZARD OF OZ 🪘 RIFAT OZBEK Spring / Summer 1992 Black & Cream Embroidered Tribal Knit Dress exclusively @uncommonthreadstore

•Supermodel Naomi Campbell posing on Rifat Ozbek’s Spring / Summer 1992 Catwalk

•Naomi Campbell, wearing Rifat Ozbek, and Christy Turlington attending the Haimoff - Grubman Wedding Reception - October 12, 1991 at New York Public Library in New York City - Photographs by Ron Galella

•Singer and style icon Jody Watley modeling the beloved Rifat Ozbek dress in a 1991 portrait photographed by Johnny Rozsa

•British supermodel Naomi Campbell wearing the iconic Ozbek dress during her appearance on the BBC chat show Wogan in 1991

#rifatozbek #90svintage #naomicampbellstyle #90ssupermodels #vintagefashion by @sarahaaronson

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METAL MILITIA 🦾 Nicolas Ghesquière for BALENCIAGA Spring / Summer 2007 Grey & Black Square Print Halter Dress exclusively… @uncommonthreadstore

“I was thinking of robotic articulation. Car parts. Droids. A boyish silhouette…” said Nicolas Ghesquière before he wasdragged off to sort out a last-minute glitch. Moments later, his incredible futuristic vision was out of the gate: elongated black jackets with a double-layered shoulder line; cyber-goddess dresses jigsawed from patent leather; space-crew shirts with high white collars. Within seconds, the message in these refined, precision-judged looks was sending chills through an audience that five minutes earlier had been on the point of meltdown from heat. Was it worth the wait? Without a doubt. Like last season’s Balenciaga retrospective triumph, this is a collection that will reset the fashion agenda, but in a different way.

Ghesquière said he’d been watching The Terminator, and 1982’s Tron, the first blockbuster to combine computer animation with real actors, but that’s by-the-by. What’s special about these clothes is the way the designer brings his distinctively Parisian, perfectionist genius for cut and exceptional fabric into the consciousness of high-tech culture. It’s not one monolithic look, easily captured in a comic-strip subtitle. Ghesquière’s intense shows work through a half-dozen separate ideas linked in sequence. This time he moved from tailoring to shiny “nylon” silk-swathed dresses, to patent-edged shirtdresses, heavily-hewn sculpted leather and crocodile, metallic pantsuits, and finally to the coup de grâce: astonishing combinations of drapey silk-print tunics and gleaming bronze or gold metal robot-leggings, embroidered with futuristic paillettes.” - Sarah Mower, Vogue

#balenciaga #nicolasghesquiere #vintagebalenciaga #lavintage #vintagefashion by @sarahaaronson

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SHRINKING VIOLET 💜 DRIES VAN NOTEN Autumn / Winter 2009 Purple & Grey Abstract Floral Dress exclusively… @uncommonthreadstore

“Many designers seem to be running into difficulty over how to approach women this Fall, dividing their collections schizophrenically between sober-sided sellers and artistic gestures of the sort they hope magazine editors will put on their pages. Dries Van Noten has no such conflicts: He doesn’t have to cast about for a “realistic” attitude because that, and never made-for-editorial fireworks, is what his business is based on.

It’s given him the authority to respond to the times with a relaxed elegance that many women will identify with. It boils down to simple suggestions: an easy-fitting blazer to slip over a blouse and fluid pants; a draped day dress; a sweater to wear over a long skirt for evening. The show opened and closed with belted camel coats (an item that might turn out to be the sartorial symbol of this recession’s sudden shift in aesthetics), but the strange color combinations in between threw off any feeling of dullness. Van Noten had taken the shades of Francis Bacon’s paintings—shrimp pink, beige, ocher, orange, and mauve—and deployed them in a way that gave life to pieces that might have seemed boring in other hands.

While there was nothing overtly retro in it, the undercurrent was of the day-to-day glamour women in Europe and America mustered for themselves while facing the privations of World War II. It was there in the horn-rimmed sunglasses and the Eisenhower jackets, and the template of making the best of oneself in “good” simple clothes, with a slash of orange-red lipstick to keep up morale. All that was subtly reinforced by the long, streetlike runway, which was reflected in a two-story-high mirror that gave an angled overhead view, as if from an office-block window: an impression of a legion of city women pressing on with their lives, come what may.” - Sarah Mower, Vogue

#driesvannoten #vintagedriesvannoten #vintagefashion #francisbacon #lavintage by @sarahaaronson

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A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME…🌹JOHN GALLIANO Mid - 2000’s Bright Pink Ruffle Gown exclusively… @uncommonthreadstore

“The Costume Institute’s spring 2027 exhibition examines the career of John Galliano, one of the most inventive and influential designers of the past four decades.

John Galliano: Horizons, the first major museum exhibition on the designer, will examine the full breadth of his creative output. Comprising garments, accessories, sketches, toiles, research books, and archival materials, the exhibition will reveal how Galliano brings places, histories, artistic traditions, narratives, and identities into unexpected relation and transforms these encounters into imaginative garments.

It will draw extensively from The Costume Institute’s holdings of Galliano’s work—the largest collection of its kind in the world—including examples from his landmark 1984 graduation collection at Central Saint Martins in London, through his formative eponymous collections and appointments at the prominent Paris houses Givenchy and Christian Dior, to his later tenure at Maison Margiela, culminating in his critically acclaimed spring/summer 2024 collection.

Alongside Galliano’s extraordinary creative accomplishments, the exhibition will address the derogatory conduct that fundamentally altered his career and public reception. In doing so, the exhibition will consider how artistic achievement should be understood alongside ethical accountability.”

- The Metropolitan Museum of Art

#johngalliano #vintagegalliano #vintagefashion #lavintage #vintagejohngalliano by @sarahaaronson

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TRIBE TRIBUTE 🛡️ JUNYA WATANABE Spring / Summer 2009 Red & Yellow African Print Plisse Dress exclusively… @uncommonthreadstore

“Excursions to the African continent have been a persistent theme in the Spring shows: surely something to do with the urge to get as far away from the West’s problems as possible. Junya Watanabe has gone there, too, but on his runway there was no sense of panicked escapism. As the sound of spring birdsong twittered on the soundtrack, out came girls carrying sheaves of flowers in towering head wraps, and an instant atmosphere of sunny serenity filled the room.

The beauty of it was the way Watanabe struck such a beautiful balance between tribal references and his own signatures. He used colorful “African” prints with motifs of apples, hearts, and leaves, and bunched, twisted, and draped them into tops, tunics, and dresses, steadily mixing them with faded denim, bright gingham checks, pristine eyelets, and surprise splashes of leopard spots and neon. In fact, as Watanabe aficionados know, his interest in African drapery actually began in his hit collection of last Spring, and the patchworked denim pieces, fishtail skirts, and Edwardian jackets were in shapes that he’s made his own throughout his career. With the crisscross flat leather sandals—a blessed sighting of some of the most comfortable footwear yet seen this season—it was a vision that offered something complete, natural, and unforced. Familiar, yes, but the kind of familiarity that breeds contentment.”

-Sarah Mower, Vogue

#junyawatanabe #vintagejunyawatanabe #japanesefashion #vintagefashion #lafashion by @sarahaaronson

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BLUE COLLAR BABE 🔷 PRADA Spring 2003 Navy Mandarin Collar Summer Coat & Belt exclusively… @uncommonthreadstore

“Miuccia Prada has trained the fashion world to expect—indeed, to crave—the unexpected from hershows. Even those audience members who came dressed head to toe in her winter “sex” collection were there to see which sharp new turn she would take next. They were not to be disappointed. The designer let her fall Helmut Newton-esque fantasy evaporate in favor of something much cleaner, rearranging all her hallmarks—a love of couture fabrics, an obsession with the ’60s, and the ability to appropriate ethnic touches and play with modernist cuts—as never before.

She opened with bright, singing color: a neon-pink cheongsam shirt with an orange-sorbet short skirt, both in luxurious duchesse satin. And by accessorizing the look with sporty goggles, thrust on top of the head, and flat silver sandals, she steered well clear of any literal vintage reference. The same mind-set could be seen at work in a sequence of white T-shirt pieces decorated with patches of plastic beading, and in a pair of Bermudas cut from shiny couture-like brocade and worn with a racer-back tank. Prada reinvented jewelry, too, tying on flat leather breast pieces encrusted with plastic beads or fusing them into the necklines of bra-top jersey dresses…” - Sarah Mower for Vogue

#vintageprada #vintagemiumiu #vintagefashion #lafashion #miucciaprada by @sarahaaronson

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CAT’S CRADLE 🪡 JEAN PAUL GAULTIER Resort 2011 Black Lattice Back Gown exclusively… @uncommonthreadstore

“Even without the mansard roofs in the background of these pictures, this collection has Jean Paul Gaultier’sname written all over it. JPG, of course, is practically synonymous with symbols of French chic like the trench, the tailleur, and the little black dress, and for Resort, he’s tweaked them in his familiar style. The bustier jacket of a pinstripe suit is sliced horizontally above the bust to reveal a bare expanse of shoulders, while the halter neckline of a corseted, cone-bra cocktail dress is made from the satin lapels of a tuxedo. Taking a detour through North Africa, he mixed in fluid harem pants worn with draped asymmetrical jersey dresses and Sahara-brown military suits that turn to reveal racy lacing up the back. The references were far more subtle than the ones he called upon at his recent catwalk show, and the collection was better for it.” - Nicole Phelps for Vogue

#jeanpaulgaultier #vintagegaultier #jpg #vintagefashion #lafashion by @sarahaaronson

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Z IS FOR ZEBRA 🦓 Vintage Frida Giannini for GUCCI Cruise 2006 Black Lace Crochet Zebra Dress exclusively… @uncommonthreadstore

#vintagegucci #vintagefashion #animalprints #lavintage #fridagiannini by @sarahaaronson

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