by Emma Greenlees
Thursday 2nd June 2011, 17:37 BST
Collage by Pradeepa Sivasanthiran
It might seem a tad early to be looking back over the noughties, but oh, what a decade it was!
Kate Moss, face and body of this decade as much as she was the last, entered into a beautiful and commercially successful marriage with Topshop. It left us smiling as much as it did Philip Green. The high street/high fashion melange continued elsewhere: H&M were reigning with collaborations from Karl Lagerf...
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by Emma Greenlees
Tuesday 12th April 2011, 21:58 BST
Collage by Pradeepa Sivasanthiran
The 1990s, the decade that fashion rejoiced, and not because of Emma Bunton’s Buffalo trainers. This was the decade that Kate Moss, the original waif and catalyst of the entire Seattle-harking ‘grunge’ movement, was discovered. She fronted the now legendary Calvin Klein Obsession campaign, and will be remembered not only as the face that launched a thousand eating disorders but also as the anti-supermo...
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by Emma Greenlees
Wednesday 30th March 2011, 12:54 BST
The 1980s was the decade that gave us power dressing. From a country where women’s equality was beginning to take off, the lookout was distinctly adult. Youth Culture no longer dominated trends as it had done in the 1970s. Shoulder pads and Dynasty are synonymous with the 80s. Diana, Princess of Wales was the mascot, and her 1981 wedding dress sums up the overstated decadence of the age.
The keywords of the new dressing were ‘Minimal E...
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by Emma Greenlees
Sunday 6th March 2011, 08:17 BST
Collage by Pradeepa Sivasanthiran
With the Seventies came disco, punk, Lycra and flares. The Seventies was the decade of anarchy and exploration, the decade when rules flew the fashion nest. British Vogue championed emerging British talent rather than pandering to the egos of the big continental couture houses, backing the rise of talented textile designers such as Zandra Rhodes and Bill Gibb.
Change was driven by the wish for controver...
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by Emma Greenlees
Sunday 27th February 2011, 09:45 BST
Collage by Pradeepa Sivasanthiran
The Swinging Sixties shook the fashion world. Accepted dress styles changed beyond recognition, yet became more accessible than ever before.
Gone were modesty of dress and the wish to be in keeping. With the world wars behind them, the designers of the Sixties could indulge again. Twenties style androgyny returned, but without the social reservations of the previous era.
In were quirky supermodels - ...
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by Emma Greenlees
Sunday 13th February 2011, 00:08 BST
Collage by Pradeepa Sivasanthiran
The Forties was the most depressing fashion decade of the century. The world was channelling its intelligence into mass genocide - and Chanel closed her salon. Her controversial affair with a prominent Nazi meant that it remained shut until 1954. Corsets were no longer matters kept close to the heart, but were converted into parachutes and chinstraps for Brits across the channel and around the world.
At...
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by Emma Greenlees
Sunday 6th February 2011, 01:00 BST
Collage by Pradeepa Sivasanthiran
Following the controversy of flapper dresses and androgyny in the 1920s, soft femininity returned. The thirties was the decade of the bias cut, the gentle perm and the zip. Where the shapes of the twenties avoided the sensuous female form, the 1930s embraced and celebrated them.
This, however, was femininity with a difference; it was interwoven with the inevitable conservatism of an economic depression....
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