Mad for Mad Men, Late Fifties Looks from Malan Breton & Rebecca Moses

By Laura Medina

Malan Breton's Fifties-inspired Spring/Summer 2011 Collection.

Both Malan Breton and Rebecca Moses are mad for AMC's "Mad Men," the debonair drama about advertising women and men spanning from the very beginning of 1960 to its current mid-Sixties setting.

Betty and Don Draper could be the muses for Mr. Breton.

The nipped waists and full-skirts were abound on the catwalk, sashaying down the runway like pendulums.

For the men's, Breton have them decked out in dapper tuxedos then topped them off in duffel coats that look like they were plucked off Madison Avenue, circa late Fifties.

The slimmer silhouettes for the women mirrors what Betty Draper wore as the series progress through the Sixties, Jackie Kennedy-influenced pillbox hats, three-quarter sleeves, and slim pencil skirts.

Rebecca Moses' Spring/Summer 2011 Collection.

Rebecca Moses also reached back into the Fifties and the early Sixties in cropped jackets with three-quarter sleeves jackets and sweaters (from the Kennedy Adminstration's Camelot years) in the bad girl leopard prints (from the Fifties Hollywood sex sirens).

The Fifties were reinforced with sweetheart neckline dresses with full skirts in leopard, updated with a bibbed collar. The Fifties Bad Biker Chick/Gang Girl was displayed by cropped, black clam diggers, embossed to look like leather then topped with a cap-sleeved tee-shirt or blouse.

There was a forties-inspired outfit, at the very top, in a knit shawl sweater and matching fishtail, pencil skirt and sexy but comfortable mules, all in romantic purple, mauve, and dusty rose.

Since Ms. Moses did a presentation, instead of the traditional runway, the library stage settings suggested she went back into the past and did some research.

What she and Mr. Breton did accomplished was bring sexy back-the smoldering elegance that made "Mad Men" so posh and popular among impressionable twenty-something hipsters and push trashy sluttiness off the stage.