Yes, 1954 had Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina, 1967 had Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour, but 2016 has the dancing lady emoji in her ruffled red dress
I don’t want to tell you what this look is inspired by. Because you have to admit this dress is pretty, yet I know you are going to hate me once I tell you whom I’m channelling. It’s going to be like that moment when someone compliments you on the miso clams you made for dinner and you say you found the recipe in a Gwyneth Paltrow cookbook, and they look as if you’d admitted you found the clams in a skip. You know the look. The one when you can tell by the eyes that someone is willing themselves not to wrinkle their nose.
The Coco Chanel quote about fashion reflecting the world we live in is a cliche, yes, but a cliche because it is true. If you had been asleep under a rock for a decade, and you woke up in 2016, the element of modern life that would strike you as even weirder than people still wearing skinny jeans would be how obsessed we are with our phones. So it makes sense, really, that the new style icon making her influence felt on the way we dress lives in our phones. Yes, 1954 had Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina, 1967 had Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour; 2016, meanwhile, has the dancing lady emoji in her ruffled red dress.
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