To be fash-forward, it’s often essential to look backwards over your perfectly angled shoulder towards a bygone-era. For me, the ecclectic and homecrafted style of ‘The Bloomsbury Group’ is a welcome distraction from eighties trash. I have always had a gentle bohemian crush on the Bloomsbury Group ideal. I mean how can one resist a collection of artists, writers, poets, philosophers, free-thinkers, along with a healthy dose of controversy? These 20th century lovelies included the elegantly eccentric author Virginia Woolf & the economist John Maynard Keynes. Their apparently infamous try-sexual (try anything) relationships and love matrices were so avante-garde, they make Kate Moss’ ‘Primrose Hill Set’ seem prim.
The great news for fashion fans, is that the gang are back, in all their Charleston glory. The dishevelled, Boho-aesthetic is hot for 2010. Topshop Unique nodded to WC1 with a distinctive palette of pastels, as well as prints at Dries van Noten and of course Christopher Bailey cites the inimitable Bloomsbury style as a constant source of inspiration for his British, boy-girl dandy. So, fill those book cases with philosophy, pull out a hand-dyed dress and purchase a little Proenza to get the full effect.
Open-minded, progressive pacificism will always be cool.it’s often essential to look backwards over your perfectly angled shoulder towards a bygone-era. For me, the ecclectic and homecrafted style of ‘The Bloomsbury Group’ is a welcome distraction from eighties trash. I have always had a gentle bohemian crush on the Bloomsbury Group ideal. I mean how can one resist a collection of artists, writers, poets, philosophers, free-thinkers, along with a healthy dose of controversy? These 20th century lovelies included the elegantly eccentric author Virginia Woolf & the economist John Maynard Keynes. Their apparently infamous try-sexual (try anything) relationships and love matrices were so avante-garde, they make Kate Moss’ ‘Primrose Hill Set’ seem prim.
The great news for fashion fans, is that the gang are back, in all their Charleston glory. The dishevelled, Boho-aesthetic is hot for 2010. Topshop Unique nodded to WC1 with a distinctive palette of pastels, as well as prints at Dries van Noten and of course Christopher Bailey cites the inimitable Bloomsbury style as a constant source of inspiration for his British, boy-girl dandy. So, fill those book cases with philosophy, pull out a hand-dyed dress and purchase a little Proenza to get the full effect.
Open-minded, progressive pacificism will always be cool.
BexBella
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