Oh, you sweet nostalgia: That longing for the glorious past that overcomes me, especially while looking at old black and white pictures. I am always amazed by how beautiful people look in suits and old-fashioned dresses.

I am very grateful to live in the now, grateful to live in a world where human rights, rights for women, transgender people and minorities have come much further than in the old days. Science can do amazing things nowadays, and technology is almost magic. There are cures for diseases that used to be deadly, and we have more possibilities to discover the world than Columbus could have imagined in his wildest dreams.

Don’t get me wrong: I am a part-time science fiction girl as I am a part-time retro girl, so I don’t say everything should dress like in the 1890s or 1950s. But when I look at how people dress, I sometimes long for the old times. But I often don’t feel that people care about what they wear from a visual perspective, which is not the same as a practical or fashionable perspective. 

Let alone the manners: How did we come from “Madam, would you be so kind and….?” to “Yo bitch, move!”. Language can be as beautiful as clothes if we use it that way and treat every world like a precious pearl on a row that forms a stunning necklace. Find rare words at the bottom of your vocabulary and bring them back, be precise, and play with the way how you talk and the way how you pronounce them. Why is this not fashionable?

So sweet nostalgia: You are welcome here; please take a seat and stay with me!

Pictures: Diego Rizzo from Make Some Noise
Models: Greta Schoop & I
Styling: Greta Schoop
Editing: Sara Streule
Location: Hotel Europe, Zurich

Clothes: Gowns by Roberta, Mey, Headpiece: Frollein von Sofa
Shoes: Melissa

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