1990s

1990s

Grunge came about in america first off, from bands on stage to kids on the street. the look was very dirty and it match the music.
American grunge bands are the creators of this sub trend of the 1990s
The biggest name for this look is the lead of Nevada band Kurt Cobain, This is where Marc Jacob got the idea for his first solo collection, which he brought to the catwalk in 92.

Spice girls in the 90s were big for music and there own persona.
It was a lot about your own person presenting your own personality with fashion.
This is what the 90s was lot about, personal trend, having your own style or being comfortable as yourself.

Sub trends of the 1980s

Shoulder Pads

During the early 1980s there was a interest in the ladies' evening wear styles of the early 1940s: peplums, batwing sleeves the times were re-interpreted for a new market. The shoulder pad helped define the silhouette and was reintroduced in cut foam versions, especially in well-cut suits reminiscent of the WWII era. Before too long, these masculinized shapes were adopted by women seeking success in the corporate world and became an icon of women's attempts to smash the glass ceiling, a mission that was added by their notable appearance in the TV series Dynasty.

•  defining fashion statement of the era, 
• known as power dressing 
• every garment from the brassiere upwards would come with its own set of shoulder pads. 
• To prevent excessive shoulder padding, velcro was sewn onto the pads so that the wearer could choose how many sets to wear. By the end of the era, some shoulder pads were the size of dinner plates. It was inevitable that as the cycle of fashion turned, they would lose favour in the early 1990s.

BOOMBOX

•height of the portable stereo craze

•boomboxes were held on shoulders or on a street corner for a breakdancing session.

•The terms "boomboxes" and ghetto blasters" were started during this period to describe the "noise" that emanated from portable stereo cassette.

•Associated with HipHop witch rubs off to the fashion that gos with it.

•Status symbol of urban culture.

Two Trends of the 1970s

Two trend of the 60s

HIPPIES

The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s, swiftly spreading to other countries around the world. The etymology of the term 'hippie' is from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into New York City's Greenwich Village, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, and similar urban areas. The early hippie ideology included the countercultural values of the Beat Generation. Some created their own social groups and communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and used drugs such as marijuana and LSD to explore alternative states of consciousness.

The peace symbol was developed in the UK as a logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and was embraced by U.S. anti-war protestors during the 1960s. Hippies were often pacifists and participated in non-violent political demonstrations, such as civil rights marches, the marches on Washington D.C., and anti–Vietnam War demonstrations, including draft-card burnings and the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests

ROCKERs 

From the 1960s on, due to the media fury surrounding the mods and rockers, motorcycling youths became more commonly known as rockers, a term previously little known outside of small groups. The public came to consider rockers as hopelessly naive, loutish, scruffy, motorized cowboys, loners or outsiders.

Many rockers favored 1950s and early-1960s rock and roll by artists such as Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Elvis Presley; music that George Melly called at the time, "screw and smash" music.

In the United Kingdom, rockers were often engaged in brawls with mods. BBC News stories from May 1964 stated that mods and rockers were jailed after riots in seaside resort towns on the south coast of England, such as Margate, Brighton, Bournemouth and Clacton. Mods sometimes sewed fish hooks or razor blades into the backs of their lapels to shred the fingers of assailants; the same thing was done by Teddy Boys in the 1950s.^[3] Weapons were often in evidence; coshes, bike chains and flick knives being favoured.

The Mods and Rockers were two conflicting British youth subcultures of the early-mid 1960s. Gangs of mods and rockers fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British youths, and the two groups were seen as folk devils. The rockers adopted a macho biker gang image, wearing clothes such as black leather jackets. The mods adopted a pose of scooter-driving sophistication, wearing suits and other cleancut outfits. By late 1966, the two subcultures had faded from public view and media attention turned to two new emerging youth subcultures — the hippies and the skinheads.

British style geniues video about Mods; http: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbm6_FqjEHA&feature=related

Visit to the barbican

A free exhibition at the Barbican looking at bowling game over the past 10 years, very interesting to see all the old console of what you used to play on to the ones you today.