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"  Ralph Ellison wrote in Invisible Man, &amp;quot;When I discover who I am, I&amp;#039;ll be free.&amp;quot; That happened to me this past weekend\u2014sartorially, anyway\u2014when I re-watched Whit Stillman&amp;#039;s 1998 classic The Last Days of Disco. It was like Stillman peeked into my aesthetic soul. Part of the director&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Doomed-Bourgeois-In-Love&amp;quot; series, Disco focuses on upwardly mobile young people\u2014this time in Manhattan in the &amp;quot;very early 1980s&amp;quot; (as the opener clearly states). It&amp;#039;s headlined by Chlo\u00EB Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale as recent college grads working in book publishing, living in a railroad apartment on the Upper East Side, dating Harvard alumns, and, perhaps most importantly, dancing at Studio 54 nearly nightly. It&amp;#039;s full of rants and SAT vocab-word heavy monologues, pop culture references and dry humor\u2014all entertaining and witty\u2014but for me, it was all about the style which is, of course, early &amp;#039;80s in nature. And all very good\u2014which begins to make sense when IMDB reveals that the costume designer was Sarah Edwards\u2014who also assisted on the oft-cited fashion-forward films Lolita and Great Expectations. The very early &amp;#039;80s is very different than the rest of the 1980s, more minimal, streamlined and, in short, &amp;#039;70s. But there is a decidedly preppy vibe that is imbued in the daytime looks of Alice (Sevigny) and Charlotte (Beckinsale)\u2014think khaki A-line midi skirts, striped tops, blue blazers, chambray shirt dresses and oxford button-downs. At night, it&amp;#039;s all about jumpsuits, off-the shoulder tops, wide-leg pants and slip dresses. This dichotomy in my own style always seemed a bit random\u2014why was I equally drawn to striped button downs and fitted off-the-shoulder tops? Why do I love glam evening looks as much as I like looking like a stepped off of an Ivy League campus three decades ago? It seems I found my era, and is there anywhere better for it to live than on Chlo\u00EB Sevigny as imagined by Whit Stillman? nonoo-pima-cotton-long-sleeve-shirtdress-w-pleated-shoulder-insets-and-chiffon-skirt-detail,valentino-cotton-blouse-with-front-tie,narciso-rodriguez-black-strapless-bustier-top,thakoon-black-jumpsuit,marta-ferri-striped-skirt,a-l-c-campbell-skirt,candela-westwood-dress,band-of-outsiders-coated-sleeveless-trench-1 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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