![]() ![]() To many, Lacroix’s dresses belonged on their own bonfire at the end of the vanities of that decade, epitomising the worst of 80s excess – the “more” I talked about before. What they also had was an instantly recognisable style” – Alexander Fury It’s fitting: Santo Domingo is rail-thin, a modern-day incarnation of the “social X-rays”, as Tom Wolfe’s Sherman McCoy dubbed them in The Bonfire of the Vanities who, “To compensate for the concupiscence missing from their juiceless ribs and atrophied backsides,” turned to fashion designers. Lauren Santo Domingo, a moneyed New York socialite, wore a bustle-bubbled dot-polkaed dress Lacroix designed for the house of Jean Patou – in 1985 – to last year’s wedding of Giovanna Battaglia and Oscar Engelbert. Although, truth be told, young socialites have already been buying (and wearing) archive Lacroix pieces. We’re certainly not talking a piecemeal resurrection, nor a pulling-out of Lacroix’s “pouf”, the bubbly skirt the British more plainly called a puffball and which defined late-80s party-gear at all levels. ![]() Perhaps that should be Lacroix-esque, or Lacroix-ish, their lines inspired by, rather than derivative of. Christian Lacroix’s style was about excess and abundance. In all likelihood, those jarring colours would then be paired with further hues, or juxtaposed against brocade or embroidery, perhaps swooshed over with an old-fashioned fichu or apron, the fabric knotted up into a bow, or a bustle, or a big fat cabbage rose. He had a fondness for the high-gloss of duchesse satin, clashing together various colours – like his signature shades of shocking pink, hellfire orange and a sickly gooseberry chartreuse – in a single outfit. Lacroix’s clothes, by contrast, were fun, flirtatious and frilly, characterised by coquettish layers of petticoats abbreviated, like a Western saloon wench’s, about the thigh. Lacroix is the designer whose bubbled and puffed volumes defined the latter half of the 80s – a riposte against the aggression of the decade’s shoulder pads, aerobicised bodies, and paralysing good taste. Top Japan AV Idols Ameri Ichinose Tsubasa Amami Yui Hatano Hitomi Kitagawa Maria Ozawa Sora Aoi Momoka Nishina Aino Kishi Yuma Asami Shiori Kamisaki Akiho Yoshizawa Ayaka Tomoda Kirara Asuka Saori Hara Rio Hamasaki Nana Ogura Kana Yume Rina Kato Tsukasa Aoi Kana Tsuruta Anri Okita Tina Yuzuki Jessica Kizaki Kokomi Naruse Azusa Nagasawa Ai Sayama Suzuka Ishikawa Miku Airi Sana Anjyu Haruki Sato Ai Haneda Kaede Matsushima An Shinohara Hana Haruna Takako Kitahara Hina Maeda Risa Tsukino Ai Himeno Yua Aida Rina Rukawa Ai Shinozaki Noa Kasumi Race Queens Erika Kirihara Natsu Aoi Minori Hatsune Yuka Osawa Mihiro Mei Haruka Akari Asahina Hana Nonoka Harumi Asano Yu Namiki Miyuki Yokoyama Mayu Nozomi Anri Sugihara Ageha Kinoshita Azumi Harusaki Kotone Amamiya Yuria Satomi Alice Ozawa Miho Imamura Buruma Aoi Hitomi Tanaka Megu Fujiura You Asakura Ai Kurosawa Satomi Suzuki Honami Uehara Rin Sakuragi Yui Tatsumi Ren Azumi Rei Mizuna Saki Ninomiya Ran Monbu Haruka Itoh Mana Sakura Risa Kasumi Japanese Hardcore Ai Takeuchi Maasa Maeda Maaya Kurihara Nana Nanaumi Haruka Sanada Hinata Tachibana Kaera Uehara Megumi Shino Asami Ogawa Kaho Kasumi Naami Hasegawa Hibiki Otsuki Syunka Ayami Mai Nadasaka Haruka Megumi Nana Natsume Miyu Hoshino Tsuna Kimura Mai Hanano Ran Asakawa Akane Sakura Nao Yoshizaki Chinatsu Izawa Kirara Kurokawa Rina Aizawa Reon Kadena Mai Shirosaki Asuka Hoshino Rio Fujisaki ![]()
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