New York Fashion Week Day Six
Ah, those irrepressible Sixities! Mini skirts, stove pipe pants, long hair for men and knee-high boots for dolly girls.
“Granny Takes a Trip,” said Anna Sui, referring to the Swinging London boutique of that name. She was surrounded by three leggy men in flower-power patterned jackets, channelling the Sixties’ Art Nouveau revival.
Anna Sui is viscerally attached to her familiar territory. But she does the dolly girl thing so well that her front-row fans never tire of watching a runway filled with colour and pattern.
The summer season was true to form: baby doll blouses, short-and-sweet skirts, socks with metallic leather platform sandals. And denim galore.
The Sixties wardrobe was revisited with digital print and fabrics with a shine. It also brought long skirts and floaty trousers in the entire colourful scenario of those happy, hippie days.
It was nostalgia without regrets – and with a riot of fun clothes.
Vogue International Editor Suzy Menkes is the best-known fashion journalist in the world. After 25 years commenting on fashion for the International Herald Tribune (rebranded recently as The International New York Times), Suzy Menkes now writes exclusively for Vogue online, covering fashion worldwide.