Source: William Rast
Leather jackets, pants, slashed leggings, patent platform heels, thigh high boots, and sugar spun hair. Not the mistress’s in biker gangs but rather the 21st century woman. The oxymoronic trend of ‘bad ass beauty’ or ‘biker chic’ reflects the contrasting and competing roles and desires of today’s women. Women are mothers, lovers, successful business people, and yet still children on the inside. Eve may have taken a bite from the apple, as have we, but we still lust after innocence and pure beauty. It is no wonder that this trend has grown in force and left its skid marks across the world’s runways. It has progressed from leather jackets making a bold entrance last winter, to this seasons leather and slashed leggings, solid and yet chic platform heels, and even bodysuits. Runway shows from Yves Saint Laurent and Proenza Schouler with models clad in leather one pieces, suggest that the trend will continue into yet another season.
Leather has always been ‘bad ass’, but it has never before been as ‘beautiful’ as it is today. Sartorially sublime styling means the leather on runways is fitted and flattering. While the runway suggests leather on leather, it can be worn in many ways. An air of effortless beauty and a shrug of uncaring, is created when a leather jacket is thrown over a tee with jeans on a Saturday. There is something erotic or intriguing about a bright floral dress sneaking out from under the strength and safety of a leather jacket. And the comeback of antique black lace similarly mixes with leather to create an alluring outfit which screams ‘bad ass’ while winking at onlookers romantically.
The lasting nature of this trend could be put down to the interesting and erotic mixture of textures and styles. It seemingly breaks all the rules, and gets pleasure from doing it. Today no compromises are necessary. Beauty and Bad Ass go together. It is the 21st century woman. We want everything – the sexy danger of Hell, and the angelic romance and beauty of Eden. We really are fashion’s bikeless Hell’s Angels.
Source: Proenza Schouler
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