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Gabrielle Mandel’s new
collection drew inspiration
from the abstract patterns
and bright colors of the ’60s
and ’70s.

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inspiration for their personal
fashion: “funky, free-fl owing”
skirts with “fl ower power”
patterns and bright colors.

Gabrielle Mandel, creator of
art and home goods collection
Supra Endura, is launching a
collection of abstract-patterned
beeswax wraps and dishcloths
inspired by the time period,
with the additional infl uences
of pop art, Henri Matisse’s
impressionism and designer
Roy Halston Frowick’s affi nity
for disco.

“People are turning more
towards this fun optimism and
probably a little bit of hedonism
that also kind of started in the
’70s,” Mandel said.

COVID has made people
JEWISHEXPONENT.COM reputation and styles of the
’60s and ’70s, few have actually
lived through the time period
and, therefore, have a reductive
perception of that era.

“Th ere’s both an overgen-
eralization and also not really
a deep understanding of what
actually was happening,”
Mandel said. “Obviously, there
was a lot of turmoil and a lot of
big changes in the ’60s, and it’s
hard to really understand what
the mood of those times were.”
As the next generation
takes an interest in the turn
of the millennium, experts are
wondering if this cycle has the
potential to continue. Ten years
from now, will kids be wearing
clothes inspired by the 2010s?
Mednick has reservations.

So much clothing from the
’10s was also inspired by past
decades; it’s hard to tell what’s
original at times.

“We’re kind of stuck at this
point,” she said. “I don’t know
how much newness we’re really
seeing.” ●
itch for levity and bright
colors in their style, Mandel
said. Mednick agreed, arguing
that the ’70s were a simpler
time, before social media and
the pandemic made life feel
complicated. But there is a tendency
to add rose-tinted lenses to
nostalgia-inspired looks as
well. Mandel, also in her 30s, grew
up in the ’90s, never seeing the
looks she felt inspired by in
person. “I wasn’t around for the ’70s
music and wasn’t really under-
standing things for most of the
’80s, as a 3-year-old,” she said.

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