Swinging back

SIMON DOONAN of luxury department store Barneys New York remembers being a teenager in the Swinging Sixties.

“Magazines and newspapers started to cover the new style revolution — the mod revolution. I remember seeing that first picture of Twiggy that Barry Lategan took — [her] in a Fair Isle sweater — in the newspapers. You felt like something big was happening. Before that, fashion was sort of the prerogative of wealthy people. Older, patrician people. And then it shifted and it was all about youth.”

Doonan’s recollection of the excitement created by the style revolution of the ‘60s captures the radical change that the new fashion of the era represented.