The long gloves were the prerogative of the fatal woman on Rita Hayworth's arms in "Gilda", synonymous with delicate femininity with Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" or even sophistication at Marilyn's.
Fallen into disuse over the years, they now take their revenge, freeing themselves from their neo-bourgeois codes a bit too stiff to indulge in a style in radicality. Exit aristocratic references to ultra-fantasized femininity, the long glove is the detail that kills an assertive silhouette, combining exceptional material and design maintaining a certain desirability.
Adjoining the performance of a New Yorker accomplished at Michael Kors, he flirts with the high spheres of chic at Lanvin and Missoni to indulge in a certain relaxation on the Hermès porters. Generally leather, it allows itself a few incartades like on the podium Saint Laurent , where the mythical long glove turns into arms of woolen skin climbing up to the collarbone.
For or against: the return of long gloves?
Gimmick with the outdated aesthetics, the long glove climbs again in notoriety.
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