FENDI ART DES JONES

Art Deco is making a comeback, and next summer, the Paul Poiret retrospective, the turn of the century for the free woman and today’s vision of the world. André Breton’s surrealism is not far away. The abundant Art Nouveau, cut down by the war, is giving way to the precious purities of Art Deco.

While he was preparing his latest collection for Fendi in parallel with the preparations for the centenary of the Roman house, Kim Jones was thinking of similar lines, straight and loose. He cited this decorative arts exhibition and opened his show with a trio of magnificent, vaporous flapper dresses featuring delicate art deco embroidery and fringes.

A common thread seen in London at Erdem, where designer Erdem Moralıoğlu listened to the English writer Radclyffe Hall and the 1920s craze for delicate, low-cut dresses. Fashion is an eternal recommencement.