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• Hip Hop, the black communities of the USA, rap music, graffiti art, sportswear-based dress and other cultural elements.

1980

New Romantics— wearing flamboyant (flashy) clothes. Most of the fashion of this new period were taken and modified right from punk fashion...the streaky eyeliner, the spiked hair, etc that was worn and displayed.

Graffiti—art or vandalism (damage)?

Madonna Effect :- Please note Asymmetrical haircut and experiment with color

Thriller look!• The Thriller look was inspired by Michael Jackson's

record breaking album Thriller.

• Teenagers would attempt to replicate the look of Jackson, which included matching red/black leather pants and jackets, one glove, sunglasses, and curl.

• Leather jackets popularized by Michael Jackson

Thriller

look!

Preppy!• Actress Justine Bateman in 1987

wearing a cropped bolero-style jacket over a tight, flesh-colored Lycra dress.

• Conservative teenagers, especially in the United States wore a style that came to be known as "preppy.

• " Preppy fashions are associated with classic and conservative style of dressing.”

• The second fashion fad started with exercise. Exercise became a big deal in the 80's and exercise clothes became bright and worn casually. Lycra and spandex was a big material used, usually coloured in brilliant greens and pinks and loose knitted T, played an important role.

1980’s:

• 1980s fashion tended to be rebellious, colorful, and crazy

• People used fashion to express themselves

• But to some extent conservative fashion theory was missing here!

• Leggings, legwarmers, and anything brightly colored was in style

• Lots of glitz!

• Power suits emerge– Broad shouldered, double-breasted suits!

• Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer. In 1968, he launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc.

• In addition to clothing, Calvin Klein also gave his name to a range of perfumes, including and (fragrances for both genders), now owned by Coty Inc. Swatch Group manufactures watches and jewelry under the Calvin Klein and Calvin Klein Jeans brands

1980’s: Fashion Designer

Top 10 80’s Fashion Trends

• Shoulder Pads• Mini Skirts• Leg Warmers• Huge Earrings • Fingerless Gloves • Parachute Pants • Members Only Jackets• Stretch Pants• Oversized Tops• UNITS (one size fits all clothing store)

• The 1980's brought two very different styles in. One style ruled the business world especially with the women. Women's business suits had broader shoulders, with the help of shoulder pads, the suits resembled those of the 30's except with much brighter colours like yellows, blues and pinks.

1980’s

• The reason behind the sudden popularity of shoulder pads for women in the 1980s may be that women in the workplace were no longer unusual, and wanted to "power dress" to show that they were the equals of men at the office. Many women's outfits had Velcro on the inside of the shoulder where various sized shoulder pads could be attached.

The 1980’s

• “The power look” – a uniform style of suits and blazers with shoulder pads called “Power dressing”.

• Remained popular throughout the 1980s and even the first three years of the 1990s.

Mini SkirtsThe shorter the better… • women and girls loved miniskirts. • Denim was the most popular, but miniskirts

were made in a number of other materials including knit and leather.

• These were often paired with leggings. The only people who weren’t wearing miniskirts in the 80s were men (ok, well some did) and elderly women.

Leg Warmers were not just for exercising in the 80s. These were actually worn as a fashion item! Usually in conjunction with a short mini skirt.

Whatever be the reasoning was at the time, at least one or two pairs of leg warmers could be found in every girl’s dresser

Members Only Jacket

• Chances are, if you were into 80s fashion, you had a Members Only Jacket. These jackets were very popular in the 80s. They were first introduced in 1981 and came in a variety of colors.

Acid Wash Jeans

• were jeans that were soaked in chlorine or some other product that removed the top layer of blue denim and left the jeans looking white with blue undertones.

• If you were really cool in the 80s you wore the matching acid washed denim coat to match the jeans.

• You know how cute Christmas ornaments look on a tree? During the 80s we thought the same would apply to our ears. Huge earrings from various costume jewelry collections were all the rage and if your earrings didn’t touch your shoulder, they weren’t big enough.

Fingerless Gloves

• Fingerless gloves were another odd 80s fashion fad, and it seems to be coming back into style.

• From romance enthusiasts to punk-rock fans, fingerless gloves were popular with quite a variety of 80s genres.

• The fingerless gloves are forever interconnected with Madonna's look in the mid-80s in her boy toy phase.

Stretch-Stirrup Pants

Oversized Tops 80s fashion fad of oversized tops. Big sweaters, sweatshirts and t-shirts were totally hot and wearing them over a miniskirt or a pair of leggings made them even hotter. These tops were most often belted with big and gaudy, low slung belts with the top bloused over the belt.

UNITS• A one-size-fits-all clothing store featuring knit skirts, shirts,

belts and leggings in coordinating colors. The clothes were sold in UNITS boutiques located in malls throughout the United States. You could buy six different pieces of UNITS clothing and create an entire wardrobe from them. It goes without saying that UNITS did not make it out of the 80s

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Parachute pants are a style of trousers characterised by the use of nylon, especially ripstop nylon. In the original loose-fitting, extraneously zippered style of the late 70s/early 80s, “parachute” referred to the pants’ synthetic nylon material. In the later 80s, “parachute” may have referred to the extreme bagginess of the pant. They are typically worn as menswear and are often brightly colored. Parachute pants became a fad in US culture in the 1980s as part of an increased cultural appropriation of breakdancing. Parachute pants played a pivotal role in the 1980s in fashion.

• In the late 1980s, in Italy and most of Europe, it was the fashion for teenage girls and young women to dress completely in black. Note the wide belt with Bold buckle worn low at the hips!

Date : 1981

Title : Party Dress 1981

1985!• Princess Diana is

wearing a pearl choker, 1985!

• Designer jewelry, such as diamonds and pearls were popular among many women, not only for beauty, but as symbols of wealth and power.

Eighties Fashion1985

Title : Trendy CoupleDate : 1985

Ray-Ban Wayfarer Sunglasses

Ray-Ban Wayfarers were by far the most popular sunglasses worn in the 80s. Originally designed in the 1950s, the Wayfarer had declined in popularity by the late 70s. That all changed in 1983 when Tom Cruise wore them for his break out movie role in the film Risky Business. Demand for the glasses took off with hundreds of thousands being sold immediately after the release of the movie. The glasses could be seen on many of the top celebrities of the 80s, including Michael Jackson, Don Johnson, and Madonna.

Jellies

were shoes made out of PVC plastic that, for some reason, were very popular in the 80s. The shoes were transparent and shiny (hence the Jelly name) and usually had some kind of glitter on them. You could usually pick up a pair of these "high quality" shoes for about a dollar!