Fashion

pickup skirt

I experienced my teenage years in the notorious eighties and I can tell you that when it comes to fashion and music, it was the best time to grow up, because everything was deliciously extravagant. And big hair (which by the way like this makes) and thick blush and lipstick and a lot of eyeshadow. In terms of fashion, I liked both shoulder pads (back then you even stuffed shoulder pads into your ski suit) and shiny fabrics and colorful prints.

In terms of music, we had Prince, Michael Jackson, and Madonna and I thought it was all normal. Until I ended up in the boring nineties. Luckily, I still had the supermodels to color my days, but in terms of fashion and music, I found it intensely boring.

Every eighties revival is wholeheartedly embraced by me (like this recently), because more is just more fun. You think so too. There are only two trends that must be kept under lock and key in the eighties and those are the cycling shorts (yes really, that was a hit back then) and… the gathered skirt.

“There are only two trends that must be kept under lock and key in the eighties and those are the cycling shorts and… the gathered skirt.”

To you youthful ones, I will explain what the gathered skirt actually entailed. Well. You had a random, loose-fitting skirt down to the knees, pulled a cord through on one side which pulled the fabric all the way up on one side and that was it. I did walk around in it, of course, but I really didn't understand it. And I still don't understand it. The only thing I understood was why this eighties phenomenon was the only one that didn't have a revival in the 2000s.

That was until last Sunday morning. Then there was the show of Marni in Milan. You know, the super cool, always good Marni. What was shown there? The gathered skirt. Seriously. The only good news is that I apparently understood it a little bit in the eighties, but further… I find it just something.

Will you promise to put me in hibernation when the cycling shorts come back and only wake me up when everything is over?