Fashion calls on nostalgia for the way forward

Fashion calls on nostalgia for the way forward
NEW DELHI: The universal nostalgia that we revel in as an antidote to an uncertain future, manifests itself in a vibrant mash-up with a 1970s and 1980s focus for fashion in Autumn-Winter 2018-19. Whether designers are looking back in order to challenge the world we live in or reclaiming their heady teenage days, it all plays into a wider search for meaning.
For some of us, our teen years had their share of traumatic moments, but the magic of nostalgia means that we can reconstruct them with a positive ending. In fashion, that could mean adding a witty layer of postmodern irony or applying a pair of rose-tinted glasses.
Oriole Cullen, the Victoria and Albert Museum’s curator for modern fashion has this to opine, “A lot of contemporary designers use imagery as a source of inspiration. We are very much an image-based culture, and I think it’s inevitable that designers would be inspired by former fashion.”
Nostalgia in fashion is not a new phenomenon. We can sit far back in the history of fashion, back to the early 19th century, which was a period of rapid industry and change, and see nostalgia for a preindustrial past, based on romantic notions of chivalry. Although nearly impossible to analyse each era’s influence on modern-day design, curators of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and Museum at FIT concur that the 19th century is perhaps the era richest in references. From the drape of a sleeve to the placement of a specific embroidery, the 1800s, were the true genesis of modern fashion as we know it today.
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