Fall Fashion Trend: Chinoiserie and Art Deco

It’s Christmas and the booze is free flowing to celebrate a great year – we toast the loss of a great one in Christopher Hitchens and we toast twice the loss of a bad one – Kim Jong-il (which still doesn’t balance the loss of Hitch). And it means that I do my one post of the year (I have to be a bit drunk to do it – I must have been well pissed when I felt confident enough to comment on Gok Wan) on fashion!!

According to Gotham there’s a Chinoiserie revival in New York fashion and they’re citing everything from Dietrich in Shanghai Express to David Bowie’s China Girl cover (uhhmm, I’ll take the former as one of von Sternberg’s best but I think Bowie’s China Girl period is best forgotten).

Anyway, more details and pics of Chinois-inspired clothing and accessories here) And of course this all allows me to post a Dietrich shot, one of my favourite acts on this blog!