Fashion and interior design experts: please help my friend put a name to this style/aesthetic sensibility.

December 30, 2011 9:58 AM

Fashion and interior design experts: please help my friend put a name to this style/aesthetic sensibility.

Is there an overarching term or descriptor that sums up the style/aesthetic sensibility on these pages? I know there's a huge mix of periods here, but somehow it all pulls together and "eclectic" doesn't really capture it. If you can think of an apt word or phrase, please let us know, it's driving me crazy.

Design: http://pinterest.com/synaesthete/eclectic-style/
Fashion: http://pinterest.com/synaesthete/sartorial-excess/
Everything: http://pinterest.com/synaesthete/pins/

Thanks!

posted by anonymous to Clothing, Beauty, & Fashion (9 answers total)

If I had to pick a word, I'd pick lush. That's probably not what you're looking for, but it's as close as I can get. So many rich colors, so much texture. I love the patterns. Actually, I love everything.
posted by Elly Vortex at 10:10 AM on December 30, 2011 [1 favorite]

It was popular in the 1970's to mash up the centuries, especially in clothing. While I see Beaux Arts, Bohemia, and Shabby Chic in most of your examples, I think I'd rehash the 70's term: New Romantics.
posted by halfbuckaroo at 10:10 AM on December 30, 2011 [2 favorites]

Some of these things are based on classic design that was a reproduction of Ancient Greek style that was popular in the late twentieth century (those empire waisted, white/pale, puff sleeve dresses with hair up and a ribbon around the head of late 1800's--for instance). But the whole mix is really eclectic with a world-bazarr feeling and coming from different time periods. The clearly 'current' fashion/interior items could be identified as being from from the turn of this century, the late 1990's to present, 'post modern', eclectic, urbane, dramatic, glam or even romantic. If I had to lump it all together I might describe these things as feeling derived from silent film era costume. That was my first impression.
posted by marimeko at 10:22 AM on December 30, 2011

a reproduction of Ancient Greek style that was popular in the late twentieth century

Sorry, that should have read, "late nineteenth century"--!
posted by marimeko at 10:25 AM on December 30, 2011

Bohemian.
posted by milk white peacock at 10:27 AM on December 30, 2011 [3 favorites]

Capital-A Aesthetic, capital-D Decadent.
posted by Sys Rq at 10:53 AM on December 30, 2011 [2 favorites]

Boho, Bohemian, or neo-Victorian, maybe?
posted by brozek at 12:31 PM on December 30, 2011

Dandy?
posted by greta simone at 2:55 PM on December 30, 2011

I laughingly said "Nouveau Baroque" and the spousal unit said "Yes!" so this is me passing that on. (Heh. Obviously, this is not a real style; lots of other good "real" possibilities mentioned by other folks.)
posted by miss patrish at 7:56 PM on December 30, 2011