{"id":41984,"date":"2019-03-01T23:12:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T04:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=41984"},"modified":"2019-03-01T23:12:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T04:12:42","slug":"fashion-repeats-itself-saint-laurent-lights-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/fashion-repeats-itself-saint-laurent-lights-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion Repeats Itself: Saint Laurent Lights Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 1980s were a decade of DayGlo, and I’ve never lost my love for neon colors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Neon pink and dog friends in 1984 (left), and 2010. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

Those hot ’80s hues were inspired by 1960s fashions. I spoke about that with some experts when I wrote about neon for the Huffington Post in 2012<\/a>:<\/p>\n


\n“Ingrid Johnson, professor of textile development and marketing at the Fashion Institute of Technology, says a vivid orange-red that was a signature color of designer Andr\u00e9 Courr\u00e8ges in the 1960s was a predecessor of the DayGlo colors that the influential late designer Stephen Sprouse used in the ’80s. Paul Cavaco, [then] creative director of Allure magazine, helped launch Sprouse’s signature line. He says Sprouse custom-ordered fine Italian fabrics in fluorescent colors previously seen in ’60s psychedelic posters and ’70s punk hairstyles. ‘He made [neon] part of the vocabulary of fashion.’ Cavaco says.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another 1960s trend that I enjoy — and that’s come around before — is clothing that lights up. I wrote about electrifying ’60s designer Diana Dew in 2010 after singer Katy Perry wore a multicolor CuteCircuit gown to the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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