2000-2010

At year end, you know, it is fashionable to make the charts, and still go out of fashion at the end of the decade.

Here is a list of clothing that have made the history of fashion in the 2000s, leaders who may wear it yet, but maybe in a few years we will look with horror saying. "nooo this is too 00 fashion"(except maybe you can wash them and sell them again with an expensive price in vintage shops ...).

1.  Leggings:

They are a residue of 80s that have marked the last 5 years.

If they would have proposed us to wear them in 2002 we would have looked with a gesture of horror.

Now we cannot live without them, under dresses or long sweaters under.

2.  The pointy shoes:

 During the first five years of 2000 seemed we couldn’t live without them (and if you look on the street it seems that some still do love that kind of shoes).

I am still amazed at how they got to like shoes which make your foot look three sizes bigger than your real foot and they even seem good to burst cockroaches in the corners.

3.  The tight jeans:

The tight jeans placed inside the boots.

4.  T-shirts long:

Let’s go back around the spring of 2004 when in many people wardrobes the over umbilical t-shirts began to disappear to give space for delicious tunics that was slightly caressing her hips and did not require the 'exposure of the navel area anymore.  

5.   The Low waste:

We are witnessing a drastic lowering of the lives of jeans and pants that leave the pelvis and kidneys discovered.

6.  The sleeves:

 Do you remember your sleeves? All in the early 2000s we have owned a pair of sleeves, like those long, to wear combined with the top.

So you had your wrists warm and shoulders cold but that was the fashion.

7.  The mascara for hair:

 Other must-have of the early century.

8.  The short trousers or better the trousers that arrive at your knees for summer and UGG boots for winter.

With short trousers we could vaguely resemble Audrey Hepburn and the Ugg be nice as cute teddy snow.

1990s-2000

The 90s was a period that didn’t know limits, Americans idea of freedom was everything was liberal in the 1990; it was the decade also of globalization.

People became aware about news, violence in the environs, political scandal, aids, manipulation of food and cloned animals; so they started to the desire to know about news values, truth and security.

The telecommunication in the 1993/94 brought a revolt in Europe: life became virtual all because of the surfing in the internet.

Lara Croft, became fashionable role model for female youngster, because of her computer game Tomb Raider, revealing T- shirt, paratrooper boots, backpack and short shorts.

1998 Jean Paul Gaultier was the first designer that sell accessory from his internet gallery.

The lifestyle in the 1990s was really speedy all because of:

·         the digital networking of persons and places of work,

·          mobile phone,

·          programs,

·         computerized manufacturing plants

·         jewellery

·         style of the minimalism

·         in the 1996/97 Prada black nylon bag was the most required accessory

·         1996 Nike Town opened a megastore in NY

·         young people had more freedom than ever

·         Desire of perfect youthful body: wonder bras, push-ups, shape-ups, lift bottom and hold the stomach in.

There were a new discovery!  They found out how to make smart materials  trough a new technology : MICROFIBERS; others materials that gave freedom and comfort are:

·         Microbe free

·         Non-iron

·         thermo active

·         UV-resistant , made of antistress fibres  and smells good.

Though the beginning of the decade, the ability to dictate the French High Fashion trends appear drastically reduced, the catwalks of Paris continued to carry an irresistible attraction.

Parade in Paris was a guarantee of reputation, visibility and prestige in a phase alternations generation that led the new recruits to the British stylistic direction of some of the most important fashion houses : John Galliano has worked for Givenchy and Dior, Alexander McQueen has succeeded artistic director of Givenchy in only twenty-four years, while the house Chloé has chosen designer Stella McCartney as a chef.

The release of creative energies in English French fashion houses and the phenomenon of "six of Antwerp" - the group of six graduates of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Belgium town, who presented their collections in London in the late eighties and then continue to work independently - symbolically ended a century in which fashion has become an increasingly international phenomenon.

A new generation of young designers suddenly emerged in the late 1990s.

They rejected stardom and appeared distrustful of the media.

Belgian shooting star Olivier Theyskens has, at the age of 22, followed the example of his compatriot Margiela, but it is no hard task for him to reject the machinations of PR: ever since Madonna attended an Oscar awards ceremony dressed in his black satin coatdress, his name has been the talk of the town in that period.

In 1999, German designer Bernhard Wilhelm caused quite a stir in Paris when he presented a collection in which he unashamedly and unusually included elements of Black Forest traditional costume, he candidly confess : “I wanted to do something German yet fresh”.

There was a lack of millennium atmosphere in the fashion world: most women continued to find minimalism attractive.

However , the colour for 1999 was shocking pink – which seem to signal a new desire for extravagance.

At the same time, men became more adventurous and moved away from the restricting suit.

Designers of the decade:

·         Charles Worth

·         John Galliano

·         Alexander McQueen

·         Oscar de la Renta

·         Gianni Versace

·         Donatella Versace

·         Lecoanet Hemant

·         Hemant Sagar

·         Frenchman Diddier Lecoanet

1970s-1980s

Fashion in 1970-1979

With flowers in their head , Jesus sandals on their feet, and a smile on their lips, the happy young idealists of the 1960s walked into the century’s seventh decade. Their dreamland seemed to have appeared: the future belonged to young people and to their “love and peace”  philosophy. The youth trendy did indeed stay alive, but the young people who brought it into being were getting older. Nature, at whose bosom they had sought fulfilment and illumination, turned against them. The gentle hippies with their beards and long hair aged quit quickly and it was not long that their motto “never trust anyone over 30” appeared. The next wave of young people did not regard the delay of their birth as a blessing. They suffered from unemployment, inflation, and boredom, and in no time at all the simple fact of youth could no longer automatically pledge idealism and optimism. The hippies high love of peace was soon substituted by the belligerence, always intensified by tough drugs, of the political activist. Terrorism became part of life. At the same time the Vietnam War was approaching its better end, the winter of 1972/73 brought the oil crisis and with it the debasement of the dollar. 

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FASHION:

Jumpsuits

Vivienne Westwood

Disco

Platforms

Homemade woollies

Lycra

Jogging craze

FILMS:

starwars

grease

scooby doo

 monty phyton

1980-1990

The 1980 was the contrast decade. 

In fashion was the harsh period of punk which included spiky hair and Mohicans. This spread to even feature high class punk in catwalks, which meant it was absorbed by the general fashion reporter.

1891 Princess Diana married to Prince Charles.

The greatest sign of the 1980 was the YUPPIE which means young urban professional.

They wore ties and suits, without be scared that people recognized theme like their father. They saw this as freeing of the casual terror of the 1970s.

 The male yuppie outfit was determinate to imitate the power look:

·        Double-breast  suits by Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren or Hugo Boss, with heavy padding at the shoulder s like in the television series “Miami Vice , were de rigueur.

·        Soft, flowing fabrics, narrow leather ties, colourful shoes

·        Miami Vice took the whole thing from the ‘80s: cocktail and cocaine, designer suits, sun and sand, Ray-Bans, palm trees and pop music ….

The female yuppie wore: a short tight skirt, highly tailored power suits with equally extreme shoulder padding and an elegant blouse.

Now women started to put pant for working in business.

The dresses came overexcited :

·        Puff sleeves

·        Shiny fabrics in brash colours

·        Balloon skirts.

·        The most desirable evening gown designer was Christian Lacroix

The fitness craze grows up:

·        Body-building and aerobics were required for both men and women,( women’s tried to succeed on having a masculine shape.

The ‘80s started to be a decade of black electro-beat dance music:

·        Hip-hop

·        Rap

·        Black bands: flash, run DMC, Public Enemy an Grandmaster.

In NY and La, discos were a street fashion and the hip hop a street sound. Break dancing was the new style of dancing, but it required comfortable clothes: trainers, sportswears; the hip hoppers had to have Nike, Rebook and Adidas.

The outfit of ghetto boys was wearing baggy pants, trainers, and baseball caps, heavy necklaces and symbolic pendants.

1984 this style had a chance to entry in the European fashion when Vivienne Westwood designed her first trainer.

1960s-1970s

The sixties was revolutionized  the period of freedom, while other  the seen it like a period of collapse, morality, respect for authority and discipline.

The change was caused by the youth; they made influences more than ever before.

In the 1950 they grew up to become rebellious, they rebelled against the church, state and parents.

Now, younger people, they were no lousier, they started to have the desire of a better world, with greater honesty and humanity. All this bring the young people together motivated and interested in popular culture or simply dreaming of a life full of peace and love.

Is because of the society rules, which provoked the youth to rebel, making theme do the opposite effect to the one desired.

So the young people started to ask theme self if they will stop doing what the people tell them what to do, if they choose their own partners and choose their clothes.

No sooner this ideas that were expressed they beginning  to become true:

Everything was new like:  music, fashion, lifestyle and the philosophy.

In the 1961 there was experimentation of using the contraceptive pill, without it the sex revolution would never have taken place.

The economic miracle was still in full swing and young entrepreneurs with new businesses like clubs, sex shops, boutique, clubs and underground boutique and in music business, they profited from the boom.

Young were spending all their money in: fashion, drugs, travel and rock’n’ roll.

Music was one of the elements that united all the Western youth; Bill Haley and Elvis Presley had been the forerunners, but now it was the moment of:

·        the BETLES

·        ROLLING STONES

·        THE WHO

·        THE KINKS

·        JIMI HENDRIX

·        ERIC BURDON.

·        BOB DYLAN

·        DIANA ROSS

·        BEACH BOYS

·        JOHNNY CASH

In the 1967 when Beatles and Rolling Stones pronounced Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as their guru, they became the outriders of a movement. And the Mods with their distinct hair styles and dresses followed new recognizable fashion rules and were soon likened to the HIPPIES, at least by the media, which like to lump together whoever was having long hair, use of marijuana and LSD. They were anti-plastic, pro-natural materials.

 Towards the end of the decade when Mary Quant used a plastic flower on her little-girl fashions had become a real flower symbolizing an appeal for peace.

In fact the flower was used like demonstration against social class divisions, intolerance, war and racism.

 Succeeding :

·        Concerts were married to alcohol, violence and drugs

·        Homosexual became active in the gay movement.

Yves Saint Lauren in the 1960 his shows featured black turtlenecks and leather jacket, thus making the statement that it was important to dress young Bikers and Beats in accordance with their standing.

The manifestation of the new ideas of having huge eyes and long with fake eyelashes and slim legs, was Twiggy! She was 16 when she became an icon, knowing her for her long, false eyelashes, exaggerated eye makeup, and her cropped hairstyles.

She had experiences in modelling business; she was the first model ever to have mass appeal. After that she has embarked on the road as a singer and actress and collected several awards.

Now she works tightly with Marks & Spencer on their billboard campaigns and television advertisements.

. Twiggy frequently wore shift dresses in printed advertisements for women's magazines.

The haute couture establish a new icon: JAQUELINE the fashionable wife of John Kennedy that became president of the United State in the 1960. They universally became POPULAR, because of bringing glamour and class to the White House; the new couple bring a piece of hope .

In the 1966 Jacqueline wore a thigh-high for the first time in public, her style brought a renewal in fashion.

Andre Courreges was the first futurist designer , he did not introduced only the miniskirt in the 1961, but in the 1964 he create an innovative space-age look;  on the catwalk his model were dressed with silver o white suits or pants( of a simple geometric cut) and flat white boots.

Pierre Cardin him also was captivated by futuristic ideas; he designed outfit that will be seen nice on robots, that mean : indentation, preformed curvatures and geometric cuts.

He was fascinated by black and withe patterns, using unusual colours combinations.

Paco Rabanne his fashion was made of plastic and metal, and brought to mind astronautical rigging. ( cerca Jane Fonda  in Barbarella – movie  “who are u” polly magoo”)( but he didn’t make women look like astronauts).

Yves Saint Laurent he took his source from the street , he made bikers look elegant, he introduced the tuxedos for women, he add element of Op Art and Pop Art, hippie influences (most of it for the evening wear)and Eastern inspirations. He introduced new elements to woman’s outfit like:

·        Pants suits, transparent dresses, safari jackets and the tuxedo that was an item of clothing which to the end of time it will be connected to him .

·        He was the only one who really know how to combine colours.

·        He was affected by the art of  Mondrian, Andy Warhol, Picasso, Matisse.

·        1883/84 Yves was the first designer that exhibited his work shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY.

Going towards the end of the decade lack of restrictions ruled: futurist shapes and patterns with folklore and psychedelia, minis coexisted with maxis and pants with skirts.

In 1961 Yuri Garian was the first person that has been on the space .

1969 Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin they wolked on the moon.