Comfort and minimalism: Corsets for every day
WE CONSIDER THE TRENDS FROM PODIUM,which can be adapted for your wardrobe for the next six months. In this issue we understand how to choose a corset and what sources of inspiration were designers who showed corsets in spring-summer collections.
How it all began
To emphasize the waist of the woman sought in ancient Greece - they used, however, wide belts. Corset also got to Europe thanks to the Crusades. His appearance was constantly changing, and the masters all the time found new materials for manufacturing. In France, the XVI century, the corset has become a subject of modeling the figure, which helped women to approach the ideals of the time: he made his chest lush and his waist - thin. Wooden or metal rods, used at first, replaced the whalebone, which, although it was lighter, made clothes more comfortable. The corsets were able to reduce the girth to forty centimeters, but this was not enough - for example, Catherine de Medici was striving for an unattainable thirty three centimeters. It is not surprising that this method of changing proportions led to the deformation of the internal organs and subsequently even death.
In the 18th century, empire-style dresses came into vogue - with a relatively simple cut and a high waistline. So, for the time being, the popularity of the corset came to nothing - but not for long. By the early 1820s, he returned to the wardrobe. By the middle of the century, it became more open to oppose the corset: the harm of wearing it by that moment was confirmed by medicine. Despite all this, the corset, albeit modified, existed in the wardrobe of women for a very long time - until the First World War.
In 1905, designer Paul Poiret, inspired by Mata Hari and Isadora Duncan, offered women comfortable dress-shirts in which the corset was missing. Later, a variation on a corset returned to fashion with the light hand of Christian Dior in 1947: he proposed the famous silhouette of new look with a thin waist and a smooth hip line. Fortunately, by that time, the corsets no longer tightened the waist, but kept proportions that were close to natural.
Only in the 80s the corset moved to the everyday wardrobe. Since that time, home clothes - what was customary to hide - stood in one row with everyday things. The history of fashion included the work of designer Thierry Mugler - the visionary and the main inventor of the time. True, the recognition of her never compare with the famous work of Jean Paul Gautier. For the first time his corset was shown on the podium as early as 1982, but he became widely known in 1990 thanks to Madonna’s tour “Blonde Ambition”.
How corsets are back in fashion
It all started at zero. The function of the corset has changed dramatically: there was no longer any deformation of the figure and a tie. The nouveau riche chic with its rhinestones, logos, lacing and open body, the desire to emphasize the ultrahumanity led to the fact that the corsets are back in the wardrobe. Pop stars also contributed to this - from Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears to EVE and Beyonce. They wore corsets not only in clips, but also in everyday life - on bare skin or over classic shirts, combining with jeans at a low waist and mini skirts.
In 2001, the video "Lady Marmalade" was released with Christina Aguilera, Maya, Pink and Lil'Kim, which instantly became a hit. The video for which stylized theatrical costumes of dancers of the end of the XIX century and elements of zero, worked like a bombshell. Corsets began to be made of "denim" washed, with elements of lace or decorated with stripes. It was possible to buy such even in a mass market that is gradually conquering the world - along with caps, leggings and plush costumes. In the autumn of 2016, designers are calling again to recall the elements that are popular a decade ago - true, in a completely new way of reading.
How to wear
Corset today - an element of a multi-layered image. He is rarely offered to wear on a naked body, more often - with regular T-shirts, turtlenecks or shirts. The models themselves have also become minimalist - plain, without unnecessary details. This trend is clearly shown by the main lover of corrective underwear for show of Kim Kardashian. Even her favorite corsets are more like wide belts, not a torture garment.
In the Prada collection, the corset is tightened in half-length and made of soft cotton - it is worn over jackets and jackets. It was he who became one of the hits of street-style photographers during the recent weeks of fashion. At Loewe, the corset looks more like a translucent bandage: at the show, it was combined with a white shirt-dress and gold jewelry. Even in the deliberately sexy Moschino collection, a leather corset is combined with a simple top. So the smaller the naked body, the more interesting.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Alyx, Carmen March
