Coats and knits are two of my favourite fashion things and Perry Ellis did both brilliantly in the 1980s, first...
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Golden Girls
Metallic were an ’80s favourite that’s recently seen quite the comeback. Though the drapey, shoulder-padded gold lamé blouse didn’t quite...
Brooke Shields
Before the supermodels surfaced in the late 1980s, Brooke Shields was the decade’s biggest modelling star. We all knew her...
The Thick of Fall
Above: Cerruti 1881, Vogue, November 1980. Photograph by Jean Loup Sieff. November may be the perfect fashion month. Hardcore winter...
Made Way Up
It’s Halloween so rounding up a gaggle of extreme makeup images from the 1980s seemed totally appropriate. These aren’t everyday...
Oscar de la Renta
The fashion industry lost one of its greats last week with Oscar de la Renta’s death. Looking back at his...
Kelly Le Brock
To state the obvious: I have a lot of magazines from the 1980s. On a usual day there are at...
’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....
Isaac Mizrahi
Long before he designed for Target and was a fixture on reality TV, Isaac Mizrahi was a bona fide Seventh...
Last Call For Crop Tops
While I’m usually all for bringing back fashion trends of the ’80s, crop tops still make me whinge just a...