1984: ONLY THE EMPIRE’S NEW CLOTHES?
“Fashion” is such a reliably inaccurate index of what’s going on in a given site at a given time that our new 1984: The Fashion Yearbook (U.K. publisher: Zomba; available in the U.S. as Fashion ’85 from St. Martin’s) makes a perversely interesting read.
1984: ONLY THE EMPIRE’S NEW CLOTHES?
LETTER FROM BRITAIN
Cynthia Rose
“Fashion” is such a reliably inaccurate index of what’s going on in a given site at a given time that our new 1984: The Fashion Yearbook (U.K. publisher: Zomba; available in the U.S. as Fashion ’85 from St. Martin’s) makes a perversely interesting read. Of course it contains the inevitable “style is not only what you wear but how you wear it.” But lots of other whoppers lurk beside that one—many in larger type. Like: “1984 was a sort of fastforward replay of the Swinging London phenomenon of the 1960s.” Or Annie Lennox and Boy George: “both of whom were ’77 punks.”