The fifties, food and fashion

Dream Weaver
The Sunday Times Style May 2011
Model: Iris Egbers
Photographer: Daniel Sannwald
Stylist: Lucy Ewing

You may not think of it, particularly in a fashion context, but there's something innately romantic about a big bunch of rhubarb, a string of sausages, or some flowering artichokes. The romance isn't just in what you do with those objects, what you create from them; it's in the notion of where they come from. It's the 1950s and you're the woman to whom cooking is a sensual art; you pick up your fresh produce from the local market of your provincial European town; and you do it all in your stylish headscarf and two-piece skirt suit.