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Power Dressing Through the Years


Power Dressing - March 2017
Photographs by Fanny Latour-Lambert, Styled by Alexandra Carl

If power dressing in 1977 was simple, sexless, and boringly steadfast, 40 years later it is ­wide-ranging and refreshingly individualistic. From Donna Karan’s 1992 ad campaign, which anticipated Hillary Clinton‘s presidential campaign, to today’s pinstriped jackets from Balenciaga, here’s a salute to power dressing with style.

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Photographs by Fanny Latour-Lambert, Styled by Alexandra Carl

Power dressing takes a forceful turn (from left): Balenciaga blouse and pants; Celine sunglasses; Balenciaga earring. Mulberry shorts suit and Vetements x Comme des Garçons shirt; Oliver Goldsmith sunglasses; Ben-Amun by Isaac Manevitz Earrings.

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Photographs by Fanny Latour-Lambert, Styled by Alexandra Carl

Mulberry suit; Magda Butrym suit.

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Photographs by Fanny Latour-Lambert, Styled by Alexandra Carl

DKNY blazer, Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh shirt, DKNY Pure shorts; DKNY blazer, Jil Sander shirt, DKNY Pure shorts, Sies Marjan stole.

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IMAXTREE

A Céline spring 2013 look.

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Getty Images

A Helmut Lang fall 1995 look.

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Courtesy of the Designer/Peter Lindbergh/Rosemary Mcgrotha, icon focus models

Donna Karan’s “presidential campaign,” 1992.

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MVC photo

A Jil Sander fall 1990 look.

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Aldo Fallai, Courtesy of the designer.

A Giorgio Armani ad campaign from 1984.

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Patrick Demarchelier: Conde Nast

A power look photographed by Patrick Demarchelier in 1988.