
1980s · 1980s · English
Designer
Annie Fewlass
Production
artisan-craft
Material
machine-knitted wool and cotton chenille
Culture
English
Movement
New Romanticism · Power Dressing
Influences
Art Deco geometric patterns · Victorian fitted jacket silhouette
A cropped jacket featuring intricate geometric patterning in rich burgundy, gold, and purple tones with cream accents. The garment displays complex intarsia knitting technique creating angular, almost Art Deco-inspired motifs across the body. The jacket has a fitted silhouette with structured shoulders typical of 1980s tailoring, three-quarter length sleeves, and appears to fasten at the front. The geometric patterns create vertical panels that emphasize the torso, while contrasting cream trim defines the edges. The machine-knitted construction allows for precise color work and sharp pattern definition, reflecting the era's embrace of both technological innovation and historical revival aesthetics.


Both pieces pulse with the same geometric fever dream, but sixty years apart. The 1920s shawl whispers its Art Deco ancestry in delicate metallic threadwork that catches light like a jazz-age chandelier, while the 1980s jacket screams those same angular motifs in aggressive chenille stripes that look like they could power a nightclub.


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These two pieces speak the same visual language of 1980s geometric maximalism, but through completely different mediums. The jacket's intarsia knitting creates bold angular blocks in burgundy and gold that echo the sharp diamond and chevron patterns spelled out in rhinestones on the collar necklace—both drawing from the same well of Art Deco revival that defined the decade's hunger for architectural drama.
These two pieces capture the 1980s' obsession with geometric drama, but through completely different vocabularies of excess. The earrings' cascading black and silver chevrons echo the sharp zigzag patterns that slice across the jacket's knitted surface—both mining the same Art Deco-revival vein that made angular geometry feel both retro and futuristic.
These two pieces capture the '80s British obsession with theatrical self-invention, where even the most mundane objects became stage props. The red glasses turn vision into performance with their exaggerated circular frames that dwarf the face, while the chenille jacket treats the torso like a geometric puzzle, its blocks of burgundy, gold, and purple creating an almost medieval heraldic effect that's pure New Romantic fantasy.
Both pieces pulse with the same geometric fever dream, but sixty years apart. The 1920s shawl whispers its Art Deco ancestry in delicate metallic threadwork that catches light like a jazz-age chandelier, while the 1980s jacket screams those same angular motifs in aggressive chenille stripes that look like they could power a nightclub.
These two pieces reveal how Art Deco's geometric language became fashion's most enduring visual grammar. The 1930s glove's diamond lattice cuff—rendered in precise white stitching against royal blue leather—speaks the same mathematical poetry as the 1980s jacket's intarsia chevrons and zigzags, though translated from aristocratic evening wear into downtown knitwear rebellion.