Proenza Schouler - Fashion Week (imaxtree)
The women of "Mad Men" aren’t just taking over television. They’re on red carpets; the front rows of New York Fashion Week; walking the dog and sipping coffee on a veranda. Don a boxy blazer with oversized buttons, or a tweed pencil skirt à la Peggy Olson and you too can be one of the 60s vixens.
"Mad Men"’s iconic style is taking fashion in a direction far from its current counterparts. As queens of pop such as Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera and Lady Gaga up their shock factor in latex and unitards, American fashion is becoming of two minds: the sexy, 80s-inspired cut-outs and sheer clothing influenced by the pop music scene, and the more demure, lady-like style epitomized by "Mad Men."
Christina Hendricks’s character, Joan, has played a large part in this fashion movement as the sultry secretary who shows off her hourglass frame with low décolletage and solid pencil-skirted dresses in bright turquoise, pink, and cherry red. Other ladies from the show are emulating this classic style in their everyday wardrobes.
Alison Brie, who plays Trudy, was seen in the front rows of BCBG, Nicole Miller and Charlotte Ronson at New York Fashion Week wearing quintessentially Joan silhouettes: a retro lilac dress with pleating and floral detail and a draped nude long-sleeved mini-dress.
