Friday, February 1, 2013

RETRO INFLUENCES



RETRO RETRO
RETRO or contemporary 1950’s design concepts owe a great deal to a NASA and rocket engineering term that made its way into popular culture in the form of retrograde-rockets.  At the time rockets were the zenith of technology and thus modern....subsequently RETRO was synonyms with modern and influenced designers throughout fashion and industry.  Most generously in automobile styling.  And for our purposes in a post-modernism concepts of fashion and jewelry.  So the revisiting of RETRO jewelry or any aspect of 1950’s design concepts is a sort of retro-RETRO.

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