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Fashionably speaking, the butterfly is literally everywhere right now. Even Chanel put it on the runway along with Blumarine and Alberta Ferretti, to name a few, for Spring 2022. Meanwhile, Emanuel Ungaro’s 2000 butterfly top for Mariah Carey has become somewhat of a legend in the year 2021, with so many people recreating it and sourcing it secondhand. Gucci has also explored the butterfly again and again. And it’s hard not to scroll past at least one Chopova Lowena butterfly choker or classic plastic butterfly hair clip from your childhood on TikTok. But what’s behind nike air max 270 homme avis the meteoric rise of one of fashion’s most flighty creatures?
As a symbol, the humble butterfly dates all the way back to the 18th century. “There are examples of men’s waistcoats that feature embroidered butterflies,” says the fashion historian Raissa Bretaña. “This was from the period immediately preceding the ‘Great Renunciation’ that took place at the beginning of the 19th century—which saw the elimination of such ornamentation in men’s fashion.”
Another time the butterfly made a big debut was during the surrealist period of the 1920s. Not surprising, given we’re coming up on the 100 year anniversary of the movement,nike choix which has been heavily referenced by both Schiaparelli and Chanel in recent seasons. The intent of the first generation of surrealists was to make the familiar new, and to show a fragile world full of tension in a new, dream-like reality. “Elsa Schiaparelli had a particular penchant for using insects in her designs,” adds Bretaña. “Schiaparelli’s summer 1937 collection featured a colorful butterfly print, and she would return to the butterfly motif in her famous embellished dinner jackets.”