Vintage View: A return of the full-on 1970s groove

Kya deLongchamps chooses the velvet underground of the 1970s for her 2021 autumn/winter lead 

1970s style doesn't have to clean out your bell-bottoms. A fabulous, sumptuous room-set with everything from discount outlet Home Sense.

Considering how polite, and apologetically pallid our homes have become, stripped of scary colour, individual daring and interrupting furniture — I’m delighted that the unbridled joy and eccentricity of the greatest pop era of them all has returned with a silken new beat.

It’s modernism with attitude, curiosity, naughtiness and bold liberalism. The whimsical 1970s showed little nostalgia for anything that came before, and at half a century’s distance, the period’s style still pulses.