I Was Re-Opening the Trunks of My Past: Romeo Gigli

"Callaghan was dripping with baroque embroidery, Afghan jewelry, echoes of Byzantine churches, Russian ballets and Paul Poiret.  For the first time, I was re-opening the trunks of my past, of everything I had hidden away in my deepest reaches, and which had pushed me into fashion." 

Romeo Gigli

Just in at RARE vintage: Arsenic and Black Fringe

I guess two of my least favorite things in fashion would have to be a sheath dress and a plain black bag.  I know they are staples of many women's wardrobe but I find them depressingly boring.  I want Drama, Romance, I want to time travel, I want to be a heroine in a book, I want to fall madly, deeply and passionately in love...  

"Gigli's women are sumptuously swathed and ethereally detached."
Amy Spindler

That describes me to a T: sumptuously swathed and ethereally detached : )

How beautiful is this arsenic green silk and fringed Romeo Gigli for Callaghan circa 1988 jacket?!  Don't you just want to be sumptuously swathed and elegantly detached too...

Late 1980s Romeo Gigli fringed jacket.  Available for purchase at RARE vintage.
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please reference Gigli/Callaghan arsenic fringe jacket

love, baci and vintage Gigli, Juliana

Tonight's the Night

Rod Stewart is crooning, 

"Kick off your shoes and sit right down
Loosen up that pretty French gown
Let me pour you a good long drink
Ooh baby don't you hesitate cause

Tonights the night
It's gonna be alright
Cause I love you girl
Ain't nobody gonna stop us now"

and all the girls look like Jerry Hall, Patti Hansen and Britt Ekland.

Sorry that photo was just too good to pass up :)  I almost like his bikini better then hers...  very Prada this season don't you think?

Anyway, as I was writing - all the girls look like Jerry Hall: long hair, glossy lips and a sun kissed glow.  The photographer is Guy Bourdin.  The vinyl is Rod Stewart's 'Tonight's the Night'.  The dress is a slinky jersey Gianni Versace for Callaghan.

The slinky dress has a fringed detail at the top of the slightly blouson bodice and braided spaghetti straps.

So have fun dancing the night away and don't be surprised if by the end of the night, you have your long dressed hitched and tied up at the waist.  It's what Jerry would have done with those long legs...

1970s Gianni Versace for Callaghan black jersey dress with fringed detail.

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