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Fashion and its ongoing love of orchids

Orchids and fashion go a long way. The appearance of orchids yesterday at Rodarte, crafted into ethereal crowns and jewelry by florist Joseph Free, got me [i.e. Laird Borrelli-Persson - ed.] thinking about fashion’s ongoing obsession with these exotic flowers. Victorians were mad about these hothouse blooms, which in later decades were prized by debs and society types who wore them as corsages. “Lady Lavery always wears orchids,” Vogue definitively informed its readers in 1927. A decade later, the magazine would publish a story called “Orchids on His Budget,” directed at prom-goers. Always a sign of status—orchids have a reputation as the divas of the horticulture world—they came into their own in the louche 1970s, replacing the earthy, humble daisy, the symbol of flower power.

Click here to read the article at Vogue