Take the futurism trend, mix it with some otherworldly beauty, a whole lot of cult value and some solid 60’s Bohemia.
Our Fashspiration this week is no other than legendary German born model and muse, Veruschka. At 6 ft 3in’s the outspoken model symbolised unattainable glamour, exotic otherness and sexual adventure throughout the swinging decade.
Infinitely more aloof than the accessible, Instagram-friendly face-pulling models of today, she is perhaps best known for her provocative play for the camera in Michelangelo Antonioni’s surrealist flick, Blow Up.
Luckily for us, Veruschka’s performance is only five minutes long and apart from a Jane Birkin appearance, nothing of note really happens through the whole film (that’s the intellectually challenging art-house 60’s for ya, kids).
Veruschka travelled to Kenya with photographer Peter Beard and worked with Salvador Dali, before posing for Vogue and becoming disillusioned with modelling until many years later.
Take Veruschka as your style-inspiration for 60’s Bohemia meets global traveller meets fashion from the future. That’s long bare legs, giant Fendi furs, Paco Rabanne perspex, fringing, Cavalli snake print and heaps of gold. Hell, throw in the odd wild animal.
There was no such thing as minimalism in Veruschka’s world.
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