Enter the New Prim

Hip hip hooray! With Britain’s summer basically over, my mind is now ever more focused on planning for fall/autumn and the magazines are helping me along by stopping all the neons/nu-rave/in yer’ face editorials that have saturated every glossy for the past 5 months or so and have gone 70’s prim.  From the August issue of UK Vogue, it’s as if the mid-20th century tendancies to base trends on hemline changes have resurfaced as they now deem the mid-calf length to be the a key trend, reflected in this editorial ‘The Median Line’ shot by Cedric Buchet and styled by Kate Phelan.  Part 40’s wartime prim in the covered up sillhouettes, part 70’s glam high-flyer, it has set the fashion motions going. I’m about 95% sure that I have absolutely no ability to exude glamourous prim the way Suzanne Diaz does here but I’m definitely all for kooky prim.  Working longer hemlines, nipped in waists and of course the Susie-obligatory hats with something a bit unexpected…

I’m a tad pissed off that the summer was a complete washout for us UK-folks but I guess the bright side (or grey side as it were…) is that my forward thinking, practical buying side of the brain will kick in and I won’t be tempted to buy summery dregs from the sales.

10 comments

  1. How’s you? thanks for the link diva…yeah and the fall collections don’t look too promising either 🙁 the new uniform for fall in New York is a mini dress with ankleboots and colorful socks paired with boho accessories..what the look in the uk for fall? xx MIMI

  4. IT reminds me of BURDA mgazine, you know
    the one with the patterns where all the late 1980’s early 1990’s top models started their career from….
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  5. Thanks for you’ve added me.. 🙂
    I’ve loved this editorial…I think the fall is gonna be great.. at least from here .hahaha
    I’ll be in london in november I wish there wouldn’t be cold…
    bye.

  6. A calf-length highwaisted skirt + platform heels = the perfect combo for fall. It makes anybody looks skinnier and it has very classic lines to it (think 40s movie star.) You can also wear almost anything with it. A blouse would make it look professional, but a tee makes it look modern and sorta casual. Any type of coat or jacket looks perfect over it. I’d really like to get one sometime before school. It’d fit in my wardrobe so well for fall.

  7. summer’s not over already is it? or do you mean just in a fashion sense?
    love that length of skirt. i knew if i just wore the same thing for, oh… 5 years now, i’d eventually fall back in fashion

  8. I wouldn’t be disappointed at summer ending so soon. Here in NY we’re in a 90 Fahrenheit heatwave, which is hardly fun for dressing as everything sticks to your back and makeup bleeds. Worse yet, people use this as an excuse to wear the most atrocious lack of clothing – an unflattering lack to be exact. Oh to be cool enough for layers!
    Love the hats.

  9. Hey, the summer is not over yet! I know the last couple of week have been awful but the weekend was nice and I remain convinced that we simply must get some more sunshine soon, whatever the weather people say!

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