Prêt-à-porter A/I 1991-92
Look n. 80

• Collection: Prêt-à-porter
• Season: Autunno/Inverno
• Year: 1991
• Subject: Donna
• Runway Look No.: 80

“Cravat” shirt. V-neck blouse with back zip opening. Body of blouse in double crêpe de chine, with a particular cut from the bottom of the armhole to the waist. Billowy, radial-construction organza sleeves with a wide cufflink tab and an unusual cuff. Wonderfully ample rectangular cut lapel collar at once accenting the V neck and knotting lavishly at mid point. This design is full of references to late-18th-century items of men’s and women’s clothing. The open shoulder collar evokes the use of a fichu to compensate for the robe à la polonaise’s typically low-cut neckline, while the bow knot is reminiscent of the distinctly mannish cravat dating to the same period. Here, too, masculine and feminine intersect in the definition of a unique and harmonious whole where, true to form, details make all the difference.