fashion flashback _ rifat ozbek

i kinda really liked rifat ozbek back then in the early nineties.

i really can't tell or remember why.

i guess he made once that fashion show with

all-white clothes and silver sequined fanny-packs.

and a black model carrying a beautiful black baby.

hope i'm not mistaken here

(and i hope it was not dolce e gabbana).

i still remember the baby's face. :)

back then it was still okay to carry little babies

on the runway. so many did. or is it still so?

anyways, these lovely ads are from a bit earlier,

from 1987 or '88. naomi was shot by

steven meisel.

i don't know the time rifat ozbek (or, actually özbek,

the turkish language has a lot of ös) gave up his

own label, but later he went on to design clothes for pollini,

and now he apparently make these pillows.

pics via resurrectionvintage and googled.

if you also liked the '80s and '90s, do check out

this awesome coat by romeo gigli, too.

decor _ one lovely, furry piece

chair "due piú" for the "more coffee" shop in milano,

designed by italian designer nanda vigo in 1971.

i just love it!

while her website looks like something

accidentally left behind from the nineties,

she has quite a few nice things under her belt,

so just go ahead and research her works

if you're interested.

sofa

i adore this sofa designed by

tove & edvard kindt larsen in 1963.

more info here.

via retromoderndesign, found at svpply.

romeo gigli

eventually, i will have to dig up some old magazines to find earlier works of gigli
from the nineties or so, because ha made really extraordinary clothes back then,
and i simply couldn't find many of those stuff on-line.

this coat looks like something mariano fortuny or maria monaci gallenga would do
back in the '20s and '30s... you gotta get to know those guys, too.

first _ via the musée des arts decoratifs

second _ illustration by zoltanplus

third _ portrait by scott schuman (a.k.a. the sartorialist) for gq style