Spring 2020 outfit: the fashion of long and comfortable clothes

2020 fashion trend: long dresses. Feminine and comfortable outfits, inspired by the works of John William Waterhouse and Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Quarantine time can be spent on (re) reading a good book, (re) watching a movie or taking virtual tours and discovering the works kept in international museums. A period of reflection and research, aimed at cultivating one’s spirit through the use of culture. The comfort comes from stories, tales and fantasies.

One of these looks at Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. The frame of his writing is precisely the “deadly pestilence“: A”brigade of friends”He decides to take refuge in quarantine (a situation we know today ?!) and to tell stories to pass the time. The masterful work acts as a watershed between medieval and Renaissance literature.

The 2020 fashion, even before the pandemic, has re-proposed the costume of the time in a modern key: long dresses with tunics, clean cut dresses, with elements of the vision Pre-Raphaelite. The cultural current was born in England in September 1848 and aims to recover the aesthetics of Raffaello Sanzio.

Met Jennifer Meagher will write about this movement “marked by political upheavals, mass industrialization and social ills“. A complex period that we can – perhaps – compare to the current situation.

The spring summer 2020 and autumn winter 2020-21 collections have brought attention to those garments depicted in the works of John William Waterhouse is Dante Gabriel Rossetti: long, comfortable and loose-fitting clothes, as well as rich in delicate drapery.

In the warmer season the stylists have focused on pure white with refined manipulations of the tissues, while the bright and charged shades are preferred for the second half of the year 2020. The lace and silk voile have been replaced with jacquard and velvets, while the volume – on the puffed sleeves and in the form of important skirts – leaves the female body in complete freedom.

Here the exhortation to abandon corsets and contemporary uniforms, in favor of “freer” clothes, brings with it the desire for new stories to write, tell or dream …

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2020 Fashion: outfits inspired by the film Emma

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