Luxury of decaying Rome

The fashion world makes us think of decaying ancient Rome. Decadent Rome appears as a symbol of luxury and extravagance, and luxury and consumption know no limits this year. Real furs and products made of animal hide will be back in fashion. Shoes are also typified by luxury, with each pair forming a unique, refined masterpiece. Trendsetters are combining this expense and magnificence with retro from the middle of the 20th century.

The crocodile leather came back to the catwalks last year and to have settled down there for a long span of time. Couturiers and fashion houses return to the eternal theme of aristocratic shoes and handbags: classical silhouette and ultra durable crocodile leather of exceptional beauty. Without coming into an agreement with each other, Kors and Versace separately presented crocodile leather status classical shoes a-la 80-s. The fashion world wizards go further. They sew clothes of crocodile leather (luxuriance that couldn’t be afforded before!). Today crocodile leather is used to produce coats, raincoats and narrow skirts. Natural crocodile leather was a fashion hit of Prada collection. It became a highlight of the collection of Silvia Tcherassi, the new Colombian star on couture sky. She presented an evening dress of crocodile leather...

On the whole, it is high time to find a grandmother’s handbag of crocodile leather in the farthest corner of the cupboard and take mother’s pumps out of a dusty box. The clothes of such an expensive material, as crocodile leather, were always made with purely classical design. An elegant look and incredible durability of the leather allows them to remain beyond the time. And if you can’t find the inherited symbols of wealthiness and prestige in the family cupboard, it is worth while starting to pay attention to new “eternal” things made of crocodile leather.

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