{"id":36053,"date":"2017-04-14T11:30:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T15:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=36053"},"modified":"2017-04-13T10:52:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T14:52:40","slug":"flashback-friday-the-1985-fiorucci-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/flashback-friday-the-1985-fiorucci-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday: The 1985 Fiorucci Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four years ago<\/a>, I shared a photo of my favorite dress from 1985, which I’m convinced came from my very favorite store, Fiorucci<\/a>. Unfortunately, you could only see part of the dress in the picture, because I was sitting down.<\/p>\n

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That’s me with my mom, BarbaraB. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div>\n

Well, a miracle has occurred and I found another photo from the same night. Even though I’m sitting in this picture too, you can see more of the dress.<\/p>\n

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WendyB, BarbaraB, and Terri Berry.<\/p><\/div>\n

Funny, I remembered the blouson top of the dress, but in my recollection, the skirt was tighter than it appears to be here.\u00a0 The dress’s most striking feature was a big cut-out in the back; maybe I’ll get lucky and find a photo of that next. Meanwhile, check out my sister, Terri Berry, who appears to be wearing a low-slung white belt, which was such<\/em> an iconic ’80s accessory.<\/p>\n

In the 1980s, when I was a teenager growing up in a small town in New Jersey, the New York Fiorucci store was everything<\/em>. I bought silver lipstick and black rubber Maripolitan bangles there. (I eventually accumulated 80 of the latter, buying them five at a time, and I’m still mourning their loss during a move in 1986.) But the thrill wasn’t just about the inventory! As pretty much any article about the store says, including this recent one in the Guardian<\/a>, Fiorucci was “the daytime Studio 54.” Andy Warhol<\/a> and Madonna both hung out there, and I’ve written before about how avant-garde performers Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias put on shows in the store windows<\/a>. (There are some incredible photos and videos in this 2012 Gothamist post<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Is there any store like that now? Not that I know of.\u00a0 Colette in Paris<\/a> tries its best, but it ain’t the real thing. That’s why I’m super-excited that the new owners of the brand — \u00a0Stephen and Janie Schaffer — are bringing Fiorucci back.\u00a0 (Founder Elio Fiorucci died in 2015<\/a>.) The Schaffers started with a jeans line at Barneys, then launched a pop-up store at Selfridges in London last month<\/a>. Even better, they’re planning to open a stand-alone Fiorucci store in London in September. I MUST be in that store. I don’t mean shopping in it. I mean selling in it! I’m envisioning a Wendy Brandes x Fiorucci collaboration, with designs that are exclusive to the store. Don’t you agree? Stephen and Janie, I’ll gonna be calling you! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four years ago, I shared a photo of my favorite dress from 1985, which I’m convinced came from my very favorite store, Fiorucci. Unfortunately, you could only see part of the dress in the picture, because I was sitting down. Well, a miracle has occurred and I found another photo from the same night. Even…<\/p>\n

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