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A blast from the past: that ’80s show … thanks to the Boy (George, that is!) and Culture Club

13 Tuesday May 2014

Posted by meappropriatestyle in distinctive hair styles, diversity in fashion, diversity in images of beauty, hats, headwear, music influence - fashion

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'80s inspired fashion, '80s music, 'It's a Miracle' - song, Boy George - Culture Club, Boy George- braids, diversity in images of beauty, flamboyant fashion

A Walk down ‘Fashion and Music Memory Lane’

’80s style

with the Boy and his Crew

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the hats

the hair

the clothing

the make-up

Genius!

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Rumour has it that they’re set to make a group come back!

I for one hope that rumour becomes reality.

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Boy George and Culture Club

back in the day

(image from dailymail.com):

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(image from gigwise.com):

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Remember their 1983 hit  ‘It’s a Miracle’ 

from The Colour by Numbers album? –

Pure ’80s Gold:

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More than itsy tiny bikinis … meet Brazilian designers Alexandre Herchcovitch and Pedro Lourenco

17 Monday Jun 2013

Posted by meappropriatestyle in Alexandre Herchcovitch, colour, design inspiration, emerging designers, fashion cultural reference, fashion fun, music influence - fashion, patterns, Pedro Lourenco, prints, ready to wear, retro-spection, runway show, womenswear, womenswear designers

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Alexandre Herchcovitch, asymmetry, Boy George - Culture Club, Brazilian fashion designers, emerging designers, graphic prints, music - influence on fashion, Pedro Lourenco, shift dresses, spring/summer 2013

The impression of home-grown Brazilian fashion, once solely synonymous with

revealing swimwear and beach style, is rapidly evolving to meet the challenges

presented from an influx of international high end designer labels.

Attracted by a booming local economy,  global giants such as:

Chanel, Missioni, Prada, Burberry, Gucci, Diane Von Furstenberg

have flexed their brand muscle on the Brazilian shopping landscape.

This invasion has sparked a creative upsurge of local talent

who have become forces of reckoning.

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Brazilian fashion design has generated tremendous enthusiasm.

With not one, but two Fashion Weeks:

Sao Paulo Fashion Week and Fashion Rio,

and with a core of diverse, distinctive, dynamic designers

Brazil is hot and that’s not just the weather!

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Alexandre Herchcovitch and Pedro Lourenco

are two of Brazil’s leading designers who are part of

the country’s high voltage fashion energy;

sizzling at home and abroad.

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Alexandre Herchovitch, S/S 2013

shown at New York Fashion Week

(image from finissimo.com.br):

designer Alexandre Herchcovitch

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With homage to 80s style and the music of

Boy George and Culture Club,

Herchovitch’s RTW collection was filled with

plaids, patterns, colours and shine.

It was kooky, quirky, vibrant …  wearable fashion fun.

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Pedro Lourenco, S/S 2013

shown at Paris Fashion Week

(image from the businessoffashion.com):

designer pedro lourenco

designer Pedro Lourenco

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At just 22 years old, Lourenco is one of the fashion world’s

young, gifted, emerging talents.

His collection is precision perfect:

clean, crisp, with an almost military exactitude.

The collection also has a geometric component of asymmetry.

Juxtaposed, he presented a few flirty shift dresses to contrast.

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(runway images from fashionising)

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Cue the music …

23 Saturday Mar 2013

Posted by meappropriatestyle in avant garde, design inspiration, design inventive, fashion = clothes, inspiration, Jean Paul Gaultier, music influence - fashion, retro-spection, runway presentation, runway show, style = innovation

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Annie Lennox, Boy George - Culture Club, David Bowie, Grace Jones, jean paul gaultier, Madonna - cone bra, Michael Jackson, music, music - influence in fashion, music icons, music icons of the 1980s, spring/summer 2013

Fashion designers take inspiration from … well from everything

what is seen … the varied colours of a bird’s plumage

what is felt … the softness of a textile type

what has been … an historical period

what is current … street wear

what is heard … on the radio

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Designer Jean Paul Gaultier, once known as the

‘enfant terrible of pop couture’ –

because of his often considered outrageous

 avant garde irreverence of traditions in fashion –

has inked a lasting mark on the pages of fashion history.

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The designer cranked up the volume for his  s/s  2013

and created a runway extravaganza, which paid homage to

the stage fashion of famed ’80s music icons.

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Remember – it was Gaultier, who collaborated with

Madonna on the wardrobe for her Blond Ambition Tour –

producing the infamous cone bra and setting in motion

the trend of underwear as outerwear.

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(image from bbc.co.uk):

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Madonna, in Gaultier’s cone bra

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Mr. Gaultier has been in the forefront of fashion innovation since

his rise to international acclaim in the 1980s.

It seems fitting that his collection, which spotlights

the fashion genius of music legends,

 should shine on those who

strutted their stuff in the ’80s

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Let’s Dance!

(images from fashionising):

David Bowie … zig zag, ziggy stardust

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Madonna … anything but, a virgin

 

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Boy George … Cluture Club -ing, a la chameleon

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Grace Jones … androgynous style, to another level

 

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Annie Lennox … sweet dreams, who could disagree?

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Michael Jackson … one glove wonder

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