Rather than use the humble wildflowers associated with the boho look, they opted for luscious roses and exotic orchids. Similarly, Kate and Laura Mulleavy avoided an artsy look when flower-dressing their Spring 2019 Rodarte show. Less than a year after Scott McKenzie released the single “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),” “the unofficial anthem of the counterculture movement of the 1960s,” according to The Telegraph, Lauren Hutton appeared on the January 15 cover wearing a coif “with more than a hint of romance about it.” With a ’do arranged by stylist Yusuke Suga of the tony Kenneth salon (where Jackie Kennedy was a regular), there was no chance of anyone mistaking Hutton for a barefoot and muddied festival girl. From left: Photographed by Gianni Penati, Vogue, January 15,1968 Sonny Vandevelde / įlower Power Though Vogue didn’t join the hippie caravan, it wasn’t above elevating bohemian trends. Lauren Hutton in 1968 Londone Myers at Rodarte’s Spring 2019 show. Here, 10 trippy points of connection between 19. All were present in the recent round of shows. Think: Jeremy Scott’s “ Call Your Senator” tee, Balenciaga’s World Food Programme shout-outs sound baths and incense healers and eco-conscious upcycling. “Since the election of Trump in 2016, the radical impulses of angry ‘wokeness’ have started to metabolize, among some, into a search for inner peace and spiritual enlightenment.” Millennials, it seems, have tweaked Timothy Leary’s motto: “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” to “Turn on, tune in, stand up.” Activism has worked its way into fashion, as has wellness, mysticism, and conservation. “It’s almost beginning to feel as if the history of ’60s and early ’70s counterculture is replaying itself before our eyes,” wrote Vogue Runway’s Sarah Mower. Even news headlines eerily echo those heralded in the faraway hippie era.
Big Data tells us that the ’80s, ’90s, and, ’00s are trending still, many of the forces driving fashion forward concept-wise in 2018 are akin to those that were relevant 50 years ago, in the tumultuous year of 1968.
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