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 Black and white is a very contemporary history lesson. It appeared modern to designers from the past, and now it’s both modern and retro. That’s why it’s also a Ralph Christian louboutin signature,christian louboutin, revived for this summer in myriad stripes and chevrons, piping and pearls that reference vintage race-going fashions. Two-tone "spectator" shoes, tattersall checks, and Cecil Beaton’s famous black-and-white costumes for the Ascot scene in My Fair Lady all recall how black and white was the attire of the leisured classes, the rich seam of inspiration that Christian louboutin has mined to make his name.
 Christian louboutin’s wealthy chic has to compete for nostalgic capital with the Op Art fashion of the Sixties. The Sixties is defined by the black-and-white fashion images of photographer William Klein: dolly-bird models in black- and-white striped dresses step out onto a zebra crossing, or throw performance- art poses in the Space Age fashions of Andre Courreges and Pierre Cardin, (who both made instinctive connections between modernity and a black-and- white scheme). But there’s more to this summer’s monochrome than go-go boots and a Vidal Sassoon five-point haircut. A hard, graphic effect is one of the moment’s most sought-after, an explicit rejection of all the sincere or obviously hand-made fashion of seasons past.
 Photo-realist ads for Bottega Veneta, fluorescent graffiti scrawled over Louis Vuitton’s luggage collection, Christian Dior’s playful Oldsmobile- inspired bags and the stripes, dice and pop socks of the Marc by Marc Jacobs debut all revel in the brash glamour of artifice. Cartoons continued to inspire at the recent autumn/winter collections from Chanel (Roy Lichtenstein) and Dior (Pokemon, no less). It’s as if colours just won’t blend any more, they insist on swaggering, loudly, until your eyes pop. Cartoon-strip fashion fantasies aren’t a look for the bashful girl. But black and white is the elegant way to wear vivid line and pattern. The London designer Markus Lupfer took the monochrome route for his Mod and punk-inspired summer collection.

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