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The British style is very special;

② Three British icons; Different styles;

3 British wind keywords.

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A while ago, I watched my sister-in-law Rosie shoot a video for Vogue for 7 days, and she was in good condition. This is a typical Rosie-style big woman costume:

Clothes are always online, but what interests me most is the difference between British and American clothes mentioned by Rosie. As an Englishman living in the United States, she thinks:

Especially in LA, she also learned unprecedented dressing skills: "It's no problem to wear your jogging pants outside!"

(It's really hard for British people to imagine wearing cycling pants and fitness pants in their daily life outside the gym ~)

When it comes to this passage, my sister-in-law is really laughing out of shape. Ha ha ha ~ ~

Looking back, in recent years, the mainstream dressing trends seem to revolve around French elegance and American leisure, while British fashion has not been mentioned for a long time.

So many people can only think of windbreakers and Scottish plaids when they mention British style?

But in fact, those big icon with British style don't have trench coats and plaids all year round. Whether it is a trench coat or a plaid, it is indeed a very important stroke in British fashion, but it is by no means all.

Marianne faithfull, vivienne westwood and Catherine Hamnett are in turn.

So, today, let's talk about the British style through several different styles of British icon!

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Rebellious Queen: Kate Moss

When it comes to idols in contemporary Britain, Kate Moss is indispensable.

Everyone knows that her most brilliant period was in the early 1990s, when she stood out among a number of X-shaped goddess models, with an expression of not waking up and a withered bean sprout figure.

But in my opinion, she didn't form a unique self-style at that time.

Like other models, she wears minimalist and elegant clothes, which is typical of the 90 s style. Does it look nice? Look quite nice! But cover your face. Do you know Kate Moss? I don't recognize it ~ ~

On the contrary, in the late 1990s and after the Millennium, the whole world tried to dress up as Y2K spice girls, but Kate Moss wore rebellious items against the trend. From that moment on, I think she really became a fashion icon.

1/ hierarchical association

Kate Moss's style was deeply influenced by rebellious rock youths in 1970s, who always opposed all traditions. How simple the environment is, how complicated they are. When dressing, overlapping is the most common.

Suits, cardigans, shirts, T-shirts, streamers, scarves, prints ... these elements that we think are enough to be combined together can appear on Kate Moss at the same time.

2/ A fitted coat

Rebellious young people don't like the big silhouette yet, and their clothes and pants fit well. Kate Moss obviously carried this forward. The motorcycle leather coat she wears fits well and is decorated with tough metal buttons, which is very handsome;

The suit is also a neat version:

Even today, 20 years later, no matter what the trend is, Kate Moss is unmoved. She always sticks to her own style:

3/ Fit pants

The fit pants that rock young people like are also in the same strain as Kate Moss. I still remember ten years ago, we had n pairs of pencil pants, which were influenced by some big demons. Finally all black, cool!

Even in today's wide-leg pants, Kate Moss is still obsessed with pencil pants. Indeed, you can't imagine a young rock singer dressed as an overbearing female president ~ ~

Of course, there are times when she needs to dress gracefully, so her choice is pipe pants that fit her. Shirts and suits can be worn on formal occasions.

This is why Kate Moss, even in the office look, is different from the lady we are familiar with now, but always has a rebellious and disdainful spirit.

4/ boots that never leave your feet

The weather in Britain is humid, unlike Americans who love to wear flip-flops. Boots are king.

Different styles of British people have different preferences. The elegant old gentleman likes Chelsea, and Kate Moss in messy motorcycle boots is her cup of tea.

Pencil pants and motorcycle boots are indispensable and lame ~

Not only that, but in an environment as muddy as going to a music festival, she stepped on her boots and got on the bus! To tell the truth, the hunter's rain boots can be popular all over the world, but without this big devil, he brings goods ~ ~

By the way, these boots are never clean on her feet ~ ~

5/ Rock Details

Not only these big pieces, but also Kate Moss with rebellious rock soul is reflected in the details. The most intuitive image is T, which has been worn since I was a girl, and it is also my favorite now:

The rivet necessary for rebellious girls lasts for twenty years;

The "bad girl exclusive" in the eyes of traditional people, including holes and fishnet stockings, are all iconic items of Kate Moss:

6/ Not afraid of printing

Rebellious British girls also have a strong tolerance for printing, and Kate Moss is a typical example. For example, ordinary people wear leopard prints like nouveau riche, but Kate Moss can wear wildness and fierceness.

There are also complex patterns that ordinary people will find difficult to control, which are reasonable in this British girl.

She even picked out a denim shirt with Elvis Presley's head on it. It's a weird little taste, typical British style!

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Retro girl: alexa chung

If Kate Moss is a rebellious representative in the British style, then alexa chung is a retro girl in the 1970s.

In fact, she has also worn many other styles, such as street, city and French … but these styles always lack some sense of exclusivity in her.

What she is best at is to use her body shape and facial features to create a unique retro girlish feeling. First of all, she has a sense of retro, which was obviously the most popular with Miss Zhong in the 1970s. Straight suit is like bourgeois style;

A patterned vest with a sense of time;

There are also disco-style pointed collar shirts, shiny elements, hippie-style big-rimmed glasses …

In addition, her face is mature and heroic, and her slim figure has inconspicuous feminine characteristics, which makes her have a natural sense of balance when controlling girls' sense of single products. You may even think that she is still cool and a little childish.

This kind of Miss Zhong shows us that the original age reduction and girlish feeling don't have to rely on pink bubbles, but they can also be interesting, fresh and even cool, with a unique retro style.

1/ Little A skirt

This retro girl item, small A skirt is one of them!

At that time, this button skirt swept almost every girl's wardrobe. Miss Zhong really welded her name on this skirt. Even though this model is no longer mainstream, she is still wearing it. Besides, it looks good!

Materials are becoming more and more abundant. Besides jeans and suede, leather and jacquard are all on the agenda. No matter how the material changes, every time I see this skirt, it reminds me of Miss Zhong ~ ~

2/ sling

In addition to the small A skirt, Miss Zhong also brought her own nine-point jeans. These pants have been fun until now.

And what I like best is her sling shape. Pant-style retro+style age reduction, coupled with court embroidered shirts or ballet shoes, is the suit with Miss Zhong's name written on it.

3/ Strange little fun

The peculiar grotesque taste of the British is also very common in Miss Zhong.

For example, those strange photo poses, but there seems to be some truth in her:

Accessories, jewelry, printed patterns ... She always gives people a little freshness from time to time ~ ~ That's why her girlhood is not sweet, but energetic and interesting.

4/ Good at mashups

Mr. Zhong is my mix-and-match enlightenment. Her mix and match is not as dark and complicated as Kate Moss's, but simple and easy to master, which even traditional mothers have to praise.

She is especially good at choosing unexpected shoes. For example, a pair of mature and elegant appearance, with a pair of girlish Mary Jane:

Or a country girl's floral skirt with a pair of casual canvas shoes or neutral loafers:

These tricks have been copied by many girls so far ~

03

Hippie socialite: poppy delevingne

The above two are familiar, and the next one may be long time no see. In fact, this is also the icon-level representative of that year.

As the elder sister of ghost horse supermodel Carla, celebrity poppy delevingne is no less important in the fashion circle than her elder sister.

As a celebrity, she always appears gracefully on important occasions.

Especially a head of hair, always supple and tidy. Not only attending activities, in street shooting, she always seems to have just come out of the hairdressing salon:

At that time, she was often compared with OP, who was also a celebrity. However, the media's evaluation of them is extremely unified. If OP is a gentle and elegant celebrity, then Poppy must be the rebellious and sharp one.

You see, vacuum boldly put on elegant little fragrant clothes, and she also put on ripped jeans; Elegant professional suit, with short croppetop inside, revealing a hot belly;

But I think the biggest feature of Poppy is that she smells like a hippie when she is free and easy.

Big white robe, hollowed-out flowers, plant patterns, well dressed:

She also likes to wear crochet flowers in ethnic style, which has been worn since 10 years ago (the picture on the right is a recent photo she took only two days ago).

There is also the tassel that hippies must have, which is also essential for her. Fringed bag, fringed coat ... I still wear it today. Sometimes I think that when a style melts into DNA, it really has nothing to do with fashion.

In addition to hippies, my sister Cara embodies the ultimate ghost horse attribute and often appears in Poppy's life. This is probably the strangeness of the British! Sometimes I forget that she is actually a celebrity when I look at her ~

British fashion core

-Rebellious and grotesque-

After reading these, do you have a clearer understanding of the British style?

In fact, style has never been static, it has been extending in different directions with the changes of the times. But no matter how it is extended, there is always a foundation. Like the previous writing style, we analyzed that the foundation of French dressing is always leisure and nature.

I think the key to British fashion lies in rebellion and grotesque.

Readers who have read our historical series should know that as early as 1960s, France dominated the world fashion with elegant style. After the 1960s, rock music and swing music culture were born in Britain, completely subverting the previous definition of fashion.

It can be said that Britain is under the classic and elegant tradition respected by the whole of Europe and has been subjected to radical and bloody rebellious cultural conflicts.

Although rock and punk are only a minority aesthetic, Britain, as the birthplace, naturally has this rebellious gene in its bones. The 1970s also became the time when British girls were most willing to travel back.

Siouxsie Sioux, the famous Queen Mother, is the lead singer of Succee and the Banshee.

This is why, 60 years later, you can always see the rebellion and unruly of that era in the British icon, regardless of their personality, girlhood and elegance.

Well, that's enough about British style.

As a style that is not mainstream at present, but does have an important position in the fashion circle, it is also worthy of everyone's recognition, ha ~

Let's call it a day ~