Sweaters for Summer

Two looks, Missoni on top and Hermes on bottom, from a 1983 L’Officiel.

As linen and cotton yarns grow in popularity and fine gauge knits become increasingly cheaper to produce it’s about time we rethink the role of sweaters in our summer wardrobes.

Nina Ricci, 1966

Adapting ski wear for swim, Nina Ricci takes the Space Age craze of the 60’s to new depths.

Joan Collins, 1985

Quite the Mad Hatter, Joan discusses her own line of head wear with a persistent and slightly rude Bryan Gumbel.

Jaqueline De Ribes, 1989

The wife a banker, Jacqueline was an aristocrat who understood the needs of her class so thoroughly she went ahead and designed for it, opening up her own salon in 1983. Such a venture could easily become a vomitrocity considering other spectacles designed for her kind at the time, but Jacqueline proved to be a beacon of modernity and good taste. She would later retire due to health reasons in 1994.

Mondrian, 1991

Italian couturier, Francesso Maria Bandini, piggybacks YSL and takes Mondrian’s modernist masterpiece into the 3rd dimension.

Lemaire in at Hermes

Christophe Lemaire Spring 2008, shot by Sybille Walter, styled by Samuel Drira

Nueve Musas is beyond delighted to report that Christophe Lemaire will be taking the reigns of Hermes’ women’s wear after Jean Paul Gaultier presents his last RTW collection with the esteemed leather house for Spring/Summer 2011. Congratulations to Christophe and best wishes to Jean Paul in the next chapter of his career.

Macy’s, 1984

If you can imagine a Macy’s with enough awareness and aspirations of innovation that it would not only buy but advertise Issey Miyake’s Plantation.

Calvin Klein, 1984

A step back from his erotically charged advertisement, Klein takes a page from Perry Ellis’ book of natural ease and the good life by the beach.

Dries Van Noten, 1992

The Belgian designer’s very first menswear collection…

Acid, 1988