Christian Lacroix’s Time-Traveling Spring 1994 Couture

"Spring ’94 was a mix and match of French Revolution and Directoire styles with 1940 fashions—my two favorite periods in costume history—in ’90s proportions.” —Christian Lacroix

“Today, femininity is a weapon; it’s a force.” So said Christian Lacroix about his spring 1994 show to Vogue. Despite a few borrowed-from-the-boys nautical elements, and the casting of the androgynous and shaved-head model Eve Salvail, the collection was anything but hard-edged. In fact, it served as a brief respite from calamity. An earthquake in Los Angeles and an attack on the figure skater Nancy Kerrigan were among the events that took place in the buildup to the season, leading Lacroix to include the following lines, quoted by the Associated Press, in his program notes: “In these violent and desperate times, the only salvation lies in sincerity and a total loyalty towards one’s passions. Couture is my passion.”

Lacroix channeled his passions in a number of directions here, as he explored, per Vogue, “three stylistically liberated times in history—1800, the mid-1940s, and 1980.” You really have to dig for references to the “greed decade,” in which Lacroix made his debut, but the ’40s clearly influenced the hair and makeup" - https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/spring-1994-couture/christian-lacroix

I wonder what makes something a good reference. What if it's a reference of a reference? Though it is always the case I guess for me for now it is still more about how thoroughly a certain show/art objects able to manifest in itself an idea.

I love the way contradictory ideas are constructed in this look, how the restricted silhouette of a little black dress is opposed with the easiness of yellow overskirt

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