Friday Flap

I'm in open plan hell... I'm so sick of desks and computers and wind and cold. I wish it was summer and I was sitting outside cooling off with a glass of lemon squash after a game of tennis. This wish reminded me of one of my favourite books (primarily for the era in which it's set, and for the trivia piece that it was first published on my birthdate in 1925) - The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby was turned into a film starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow. The two of them are absolutely divine in the film. Robert was dressed by Ralph Lauren, and you can really see from the 70s when the movie was made to today, how a classic outfit can really survive the vagaries of time.

Mia Farrow is stunning as Daisy

The outfits, more so:

And for today, occasionally designers delve back to the 1920s for inspiration, but not as much as I would like. Perhaps the 1920s are best untouched, I'm not sure, but it is odd that the Jazz Age isn't remade without more vim from the design world.

Spring 2008: Alexander Wang, Anna Sui, Christian Dior, Costello Tagliapietra, Daks, Rodarte, Moschino, Réyes, Roberto Cavalli and Yeohlee