Throw-Back Thursday

2014 marks my 20th year as a professional wardrobe stylist, and I figured what better way to commemorate this milestone but with the increasingly popular #ThrowBackThursday post! I always say that fashion is cyclical. Trends come, they go, and they come again but better each time. So in my version of the #ThrowBackThursday I sought to prove this statement by looking at trends from the beginning of my career and comparing them to the current Spring/Summer 2015 looks.

The first step I took in my endeavor was digging up my fifteen-twenty year old Vogue and Harper’s B magazines from my storage space. Not a clean task but pretty fun I must say! The second step was to flip through the pages of these decades old fashion bibles while simultaneously looking at current runway shows on style.com.

Through FIT intern Stephan Mullen's persistence and my love of research we found some really great translations of how trends have been reinvented over the past twenty years!

RED, YELLOW, AND BLUE COLOR BLOCK DRESSES ACCOMPANIED BY YELLOW LACE-UP BOOTIES FROM BALMAIN AND TODD OLDHAm:

 

           BALMAIN            S/S '15

 
 

        Todd Oldham          HARPER'S BAAZAR '94

 

BLACK LONG SLEEVE SHIMMERING BODY-CON DRESSES FROM BALENCIAGA AND GIORGIO ARMANI:

 

                BALENCIAGA                 S/S '15

 
 

   Giorgio Armani     HARPEr'S BAAZAR '94

 

CROPPED GOLD JACKETS FROM CHANEL AND GIANNI VERSACE:

 

                    CHANEL                     S/S '15

 
 

         Gianni Versace          Vogue '94

 

RHINESTONES PAIRED WITH DENIM FROM DOLCE & GABBANA AND CHRISTIAN LACROIX.

 

DOLCE AND GABBANA  S/S '15 

 
 

Christian Lacroix              Vogue '88

 

DOUBLE BREASTED JACKETS PAIRED WITH PEAK LAPELS AND STRIPES FROM GILES AND MONDI COLLECTIONS.

 

             GILES              S/S '15

 
 

 Mondi Collections Vogue '95

 

CAMEL BELTED TRENCH COATS FROM MARC JACOBS AND MICHAEL KORS.

 

         MARC JACOBS           S/S '15

 
 

  Michael Kors                  vogue '97

 

PASTEL COLORED PLAIDS FROM OSCAR DE LA RENTA AND INSTANTE

 

Oscar de La Renta    s/s '15 

 
 

      INSTANTE       VOGUE '95

 

BLACK BODY-CON DRESSES FEATURING MESH CUTOUTS FROM RALPH RUCCI AND NITELINE.

 

                RALPH RUCCI                S/S '15

 
 

                    NitelinE                     Vogue '97

 

CLASSIC STRAPLESS WHITE DRESSES FROM ZAC POSEN AND CALVIN KLEIN.

 

                    Zac Posen                     S/S '15

 
 

          CALVIN KLEIN           VOGUE '97

 

FLOWING CHIFFON FLORAL PRINT DRESSES FORM VERA WANG AND DOLCE AND GABBANA.

 

                  Vera Wang                     S/S '15  

 
 

        DOLCE & GABBANA                        VOGUE '97