You know what I bizarrely enjoyed in the past year? I’ve loved all of the news segments on the history of the Spanish Flu. I’ll always enjoy learning about historical events, but I really didn’t know much about the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-1920. Seeing all of those old photos and stories about how the world was going through the once-in-a-century deadly pandemic was really fascinating and grotesque – mostly because of how little actually changed 100 years later. And then thinking about how the Roaring Twenties might have been a direct result of not just the end of World War I, but the end of the pandemic. And so… considering how little has actually changed, I am one of those people who thinks that the next decade, after we get mass vaccinations, will be a wild one. We’re going to have so much fun! Olivia Palermo thinks so too. She chatted with fashion editors recently about her pandemic life (it involves cashmere and diamonds) and her plans for the New Roaring Twenties.

Leave it to Olivia Palermo to keep her fashion standards high during a global pandemic. The fashion star, 34, revealed that she hasn’t been slacking style-wise while staying home, sporting “a lot of cashmere and diamonds” over the past few months.

“I have not let coronavirus stop me from getting dressed; I feel that it’s important,” she told editors while promoting a new cocktail she created with Patrón and Muddling Memories based on fashion trends for the new year. “I’m convinced it’s going to be the roaring ’20s with that extra sparkle when we get out [of quarantine]. All of us have probably been looking at our festive wardrobes for a year, waiting to wear things.”

As for what Palermo will be wearing to her virtual holiday parties this year? The former “The City” star says there’s no reason not to “go for it 100 percent. I’m really into skirt overlays that are kind of ’60s, and modernizing it with a fabulous statement necklace,” she said. “[It’s all about] making your most fabulous statements in your wardrobe and emphasizing that, then leaving everything else basic or adding a great accessory.”

After the holidays, Palermo said she plans to return to the ballroom dance lessons she and husband Johannes Huebl started and then abandoned. But generally speaking, the fashionista doesn’t believe in New Year’s resolutions. “I feel that you should work on yourself all year round and not just in January,” she said. “Doing meditation, working out, taking time for yourself, going to the spa, focusing on things that you wouldn’t necessarily have the time [to]. It’s a year of change for everyone, so things that you haven’t done, [you should] take the time for.”

[From Page Six]

I can’t imagine sitting around all year at home, wearing cashmere and diamonds. But that’s not my brand. I do love cashmere, but as I get older, I’m just wary of the cashmere upkeep! But yeah, as I said, I’m also convinced that the Roaring Twenties are coming and I hope they’ll be fun. I’m hoping for fun fashion, fun gossip, fun celebrity hookups, fun drama. Who will be this decade’s Jay Gatsby? Who will be this decade’s F. Scott Fitzgerald?

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.