Fashion picks: Jess Cartner-Morley on sixties

They say that if you remember the 1960s, you weren’t there. Which I don’t get, because who could forget clothes like these? Autumn’s take on the 1960s zooms in on the middle years: it’s darker than the go-go girls who opened the decade, but sharper and less woozy than the Marrakech-boho chicks who led into the 1970s. Think boots with above-the-knee skirts, oversized sunglasses, big buttons and wing collars. At Gucci, mustard yellow and tobacco brown lent accents of sophistication to rose pink and mint green; at Versace, Julie Christie hair added glamour to rollnecks. Saint Laurent evoked Edie Sedgwick with thrift-shop chic for party girls. At Louis Vuitton, Nicholas Ghesquière looked back to the era of youthquake with ski-lodge knitwear and Swinging London graphics. If the early 1960s is innocence and the decade’s end is rebellion, this mid-60s snapshot is about freedom. The clothes are retro, but the spirit is anything but staid.