Perhaps only second to taffeta, lace was one of the top fabrics in the 1980s. All the big designers used...
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Fringe Festival
Fringe, it seems, is everywhere these days. From boots to jackets, from swimsuits to pretty much everything Amanda made on...
Neon Love
For better or worse, ’80s fashion is synonymous with many things: big shoulder pads, puffy taffeta party dresses and of...
’80s Menswear Dressing
Menswear dressing in the 1980s typically did not mean menswear-inspired dressing, it meant suit, tie, button-up shirt — especially the...
Scarf Season
Who doesn’t love a good scarf? And especially — who doesn’t love a good ’80s scarf? The 1980s was the...
’80s Jewel Tones
Blacks (and the occasional greys) may make up the majority of my wardrobe now, but I’ll always have a soft...
i-D, October 1984
Leigh Bowery, Memphis, a neon-splashed cover photo by Nick Knight? Now, this is my ’80s. i-D magazine was harder to...
’80s Jean Paul Gaultier
To say I love Jean Paul Gaultier’s work is an understatement. It all began as a teenager in the 1980s....
Vogue, September 1984
September 1984 was decades before the movie, The September Issue, was released, but even back then the teenage me wouldn’t...