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Fashion in the 1980's
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Fashion in the 1980's For the New York teenager, the European or Japanese housewife, British fashion means pop videos on MTV and splashy Di and Fergie cover stories. To the world at large, our style is that which is worn by youth as its class extremes: British fashion in international markets is Rock 'n' Royalty. Rock & Royalty, Vogue, August 1987 Britain's new ambassador for fashion had an aristocratic lineage, endless legs. At the age of 19 years old, Lady Diana Spencer possessed a shy smile and a firm grip on the public imagination - key ingredients, which made her the most photographed woman in the world. The decade which worshiped status symbols and courted conspicuous dressing was rooted in romantic fantasy. Royalty and soap opera lived in parallel universes. The twin obsessions of the 1980s were Dynasty and Diana; both bonded by the upwardly mobile shoulder pad. By 1980 punk burnt itself...
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