The Fashion Age Of Aquarius

The Sixties, that enviable, enduring steadfast though not unattainable age of innocence is staging a comeback. An era's optimism that translates into a great desire to really "do something" with passion, freedom and the engine of a new creativity driving a mix of pop, swing and couture. There was more color, comfort, dreams and it was better if they were free, rich, beautiful and even better if they were GLOBAL. These were the boom years where consumerism grew as the population grew. Ideas grew as well and everything moved - fashion, design, entertainment, lifestyle and art. We are what we are today thanks also to those years. They have given us the the possibility to shorten our hems as far as we want and the desire to lose ourselves in the bright neon lights of Broadway.

With the 20/20 hindsight of this new millennium, the Sixties appear to be forever young. The objects and symbols of the era seem reassuring and optimistic even today. That is why their message is always current. But not out of nostalgia or a desire for revival. The Great Turning Point, The Sixties, is more than exhibition and fashionista fodder. It's an art-design-architecture-fashion-cinema-music melting pot, combining whimsical kitsch with astrological coolness and geometric combinations all boxed in a decade and offered to the public to show us how we are all somehow the children of those years. Our inheritance from this decade is one of American Pop Art, Nouveau Realism and Conceptual Art. Or more specifically of plastic, chocolate spread and comics. Swinging London, today as yesterday, swaying to the rhythm of the Beatles.

These were golden years for fashion, design and jewelry. Revolution rhymed with experimentation. Art and jewelry combined in abstract forms. In this return to the Sixties, jewelry rediscovers the appeal of the perfect circle. Spheres, beads and marbles: reassuring in form, welcoming in fantasy, relieving stress in daily routine. In those boom years: nothing sharp could lead to happiness. As fashion revives this age of innocence and optimism, curves and round shapes will dominate jewelry this season. A perfect sphere is interpreted in gold, white gold, and stones of all colors. The ubiquitous peace symbol returns with chic elegance and style, as do multi-stone pieces, following a secret rhythm of cool far outness. The peaceful Age Of Aquarius shows us all it's better to live among the stars.