BRIGHT IDEAS

Spring accessories splashed in Pop-art vibes make a statement both familiar and fresh

Keziah Weir

Vanities/Style

'I have a head for business and a bod for sin," Melanie Griffith's Tess purrs in Working Girl. Feminine sexual agency existing alongside business acumen seems as timely today as it did in the 1988 film, and it's easy to imagine a 21st-century Tess in these Saint Laurent pumps, her party-girl past wrapped in her power-suit future.

But it's the 90s that Versace throws back to with this purse, a decade when Elizabeth Hurley appeared on the red carpet with a ladder of oversize safety pins snaking up the side of her scanty Versace dress. This season, Donatella nods to Gianni's 1994 collection with vibrant hues, peekaboo slits, and a handbag that channels Hurley's chutzpah and abandons polite millennial pink for the no-holdsbarred pleasures of hot, hot fuchsia.