1960s

Barbarella

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“Barbarella” is a crazy, campy, 1968 sexploation cult film. It was used as a sex symbol vehicle for Jane Fonda and directed by her then husband Roger Vadim. It’s a truly wild film that could be quickly described as a 41st century sex road trip through SPACE . If you aren’t sold yet, maybe the opening spacesuit strip tease to a bubblegum pop theme song will help? X

Barbarella is completely naive and genuine and sweet. She doesn’t understand “old-fashioned” sex, and she doesn’t wear her sexy outfits to seduce but probably just because she looks fabulous in them.

Designers Paco Rabanne and Jacques Fonteray made all the costumes larger than life. There’s lots of shimmery metals, cutouts, boots and plastics. Every outfit plays with contrasting textures and elements. It falls into the 1960s mod space age style but amplifies it. Quick history on space age style here

We’re lucky enough that that there was promotional shoots of Jane Fonda in all eight of her “Barbarella” costumes, which can be seen in full here

So of course these are one of a kind creations and they’re too over the top to find anything incredibly similar but I found some pieces that fit that “1960s futuristic space babe vibe”

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Mrs. Robinson

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One of my favorite films is Mike Nichols’ 1967 classic, The Graduate. It’s largely relatable to young adults, who even after five decades, share the common trend of being largely lost and struggling to connect to past generations. Its willingness to push boundaries made it a staple in the New Hollywood cannon.

Set in affluent Pasadena, CA in the late 1960s there is beautiful design all around. Of course we will be looking at the iconic fashion throughout the film, mainly with the character of Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft).

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Mrs. Robinson’s costume design is fairly 1960s modern. She is a middle aged woman who takes pride in her appearance. She dresses her age, not particularly youthful, but very clean, sophisticated and sexy.

There is a lot of commonality in her wardrobe. She is clearly a fan of black, which relates to both the sadness of her character but it’s also a powerful color. She wears a lot of animal print, which definitely plays into the whole cougar hunting down her prey motif. And lots of sheer and lingerie, cause its hot.

As for dressing the part, luckily animal print coats have been in style for the past two winters or so. Of course we prefer vintage here so here’s some Etsy finds that would do the look proud

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