Art Deco

On New Year’s  Eve I would like to start with the Art Deco style which has become an inexhaustible source of inspiration well-loved by fashion designers of all generations.

At corporate parties devoted to New Year, dress code is often set by this style.

Art-Deco appeared in the postwar era, the period of women's emancipation, Prohibition and became critical period of global fashion.

Young, independent, asserting their position in society on an equal basis with men, women, so-called flappers, hungry for a good life, champagne and cocaine, dancing Charleston and dreaming of a convertible and a rich husband - life itself has forced women to a simple outfit. Art Nouveau of 10-ies with its narrow, long dresses and big hats doesn’t correspond to the modern rhythm anymore.

Style forming features of Art Deco became geometric patterns, prints, short hair, small head, low waist, naked back, orientalism - Oriental motifs, Cupid’s bow lips, fur, beads, sequins, small bags, fringe and mouthpiece. The rapid development of Hollywood cinema gave the world an example of imitation - charming Louise Brooks and Mary Pickford.

So, I introduce you the image in the Art Deco style, designed somewhat ironic, masquerade reflecting the spirit of the time - it's the New Year! As style-forming elements I used beads and tassels, hair waves, first performed on the wet hair with a lot of gel, which I dried then and combed dry hair to form a volumetric wave - and this technique has given, in my view, richer image. But I did make up somewhat exaggerated, a bit brighter than it was customary in those years.

And here is one more image. Here I combed the hair again, then made a bouffant and formed it carelessly.

Of course, if you do not want too much brightness, makeup can be more restrained - draw lips in the usual way, as well as eyes. And it is not necessary to create the image of the 20's forgetting about what you are: if you need a high heel, which wasn’t worn in those days, so put it on! It is not necessary to repeat exactly what it was then.