Fashion trends

Fashion repeats itself.  Maybe people are afraid of the future, so they rather turn back to good old days. Maybe those times deserve to be remembered. It's interesting how fashion trends can wake up nostalgia in us...

By watching trends I couldn't help to notice some similarities:

Byzantine cross pendant

Cross Pendant, ca. 1080–1130 Byzantine

 

                                     

Cross pendant necklace with enamelled ceramic disks
Dolce&Gabbana- Fall/Winter 2014

Byzantine cross pendants portray ancient symbols of Christian faith and spirituality within the cross design. In the era of Byzantium, they were made for the elite of the Byzantine empire and beautifully decorated with floral patterns worked in multicolored cloisonné enamel on a single sheet of gold. 

The cross pendant trend is not new, though, many Christians  and  many celebrities, especially Madonna, wear such a necklace as a part of their everyday outfit. 

But D&G made it special again. What they did differently is that they used a similar technique of decorating for pendant, the enameling with ceramic disks, which reminds of ancient byzantine art technique and this way the byzantine cross pendant revives.

Everlasting blue colour

                                                 Egypt, 4000-332 B.C.                                                 

                                                 Pharaoh going to war                                                 

    PANTONE fashion colour trend for spring 2013       

Monaco Blue

There is something noble about blue. Although it was a latecomer among colours used in art and decoration, it found it's way throughout the history.

In Egypt, blue was the favourite colour to Egyptian pharaohs. They wore blue when they went to war because it reflected the colour of the sky god Amon and it was symbol for divinity. It was also used by Romans, Greeks and in the Byzantine empire. In the Middle Ages it had symbolic meaning for holiness and in the 19^th century blue was the colour of the dress made especially for Duchess Charlotte and since then we have the term royal blue.

Like the history shows, there is some connection between divine, royal and blue.  And according to Pantone's specialists, this spring and fall it's back again in shades of Monaco Blue and Mykonos Blue. 

Block heel sandals

1960's block heel sandals

Marni metallic block heel sandals SS 2013

This trend goes back to the 1960’s and it's here again. Must have for summer 2013. In my opinion it's a good idea to give comfort a chance, too.

If you find it interesting how history plays with fashion and fashion plays with history, check Part Nouveau blog. I think it's amazing.