{"id":1159,"date":"2016-05-04T09:06:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T07:06:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-01-04T11:58:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T10:58:38","slug":"silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/blog\/silver\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Gala 2016 goes Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/173911.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Always the silvery tones have technological and futuristic connotations,&nbsp;but when it is covered with a patina, silver can also express the passage of time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/TaylorSwift.png\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>During the Second World War, when the silk was used for parachutes, fashion oriented itself on synthetic fabrics such as rayon, produced by American Enka Company.<\/p>\n<p>To contribute to the war effort, the leaders of fashion, from <em>Harper&#8217;s Bazaar<\/em> to Bloomingdale&#8217;s, promoted the new fabric presenting it as a technological innovation to wear,&nbsp;rather than as a simple synthetic silk.<\/p>\n<p>In 1944 Enka offered to style-conscious consumers, but also informed about news from the front,&nbsp;an evening dress with belt and matching gloves in the shade of Quicksilver.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Spain and refugee in France, Francisco de Rabanne de Cuervo (a.k.a. Paco Rabanne)&nbsp;had the courage to use <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/blog\/metal\/\" rel=\"noopener\">metal<\/a>:&nbsp;using unconventional materials such as aluminum and plastic, Rabanne gave his models a futuristic and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/blog\/sci-fi\/\" rel=\"noopener\">sci-fi<\/a> allure.<\/p>\n<p>After the experience at Alexander McQueen and Viktor &amp; Rolf,&nbsp;Iris Van Herpen has started her own:&nbsp;couture collection for spring 2012 drew to new technologies,&nbsp;but also explored the crisis of the emotions and the sense of emptiness generated by the digital world.<\/p>\n<p>The work of Iris Van Herpen is appreciated by the fashion icon Daphne Guinness and the musician Bjork,&nbsp;two women who love to express their identity through clothing.<\/p>\n<p>It is not surprising that at the Met Gala 2016, that was focused on the dichotomy between handmade haute couture and machine-made fashion on the theme \u201cManus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology\u201d, many celebrities chose to dress in silver tones.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-asset-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shade of technology<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_additional_keywords":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_robots":["index"],"rank_math_breadcrumb_title":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_facebook_image_id":0,"rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_twitter_image_id":0,"rank_math_twitter_card_type":""},"categories":[164,115],"tags":[380,365,367],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-red-carpet","category-trends","tag-met-gala","tag-metal","tag-silver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberty4fashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}