Faye's blog: Fashion and Escapism

1930's - 1940's Hollywood impact
* More women wore make-up
* fashion was more glamorous
* new influential style icons.
* globalisation - everybody looked up to Hollywood

Images left to right
1. Old photo of Hollywood sign
Source:http://www.gamecyte.com/the-replay-value-of-history
2. Bette Davis, influential Hollywood icon
Style: http://www.zimbio.com/1940s+Hair/notes/1/Best+1940s+Hair+Pictures
3. Audrey Hepburn, influential Hollywood icon
Source: http://students.ou.edu/V/Traci.M.Vickers-1/

1980's designer heros
* Economy boom
* YUPPIEs
* Women - power suits, dressed for success, big hair, shoulder pads.
* Doc Martins
* Trainers
* Pumps
* fish net hosiery
* Colour Coordination
* Fashion to make a statement

1. women in 'power suits'
Source:http://www.customizedgirl.com/blog/?p=26
2. Madonna, influential style icon
Source: http://www.eightiesonline.com/80s-music/madonna-top-1980s-fashion-icon
3. Men's fashion
Source: http://my.opera.com/TogaOga/blog/styles-of-the-past

The Ballet Russes
* (French for the Russian ballet)
* A ballet company
* 1909 to 1929
* preformed in numerous countries but never in Russia
* Amazing extravagant costumes
* designer Leon Baskt did not make literal costumes.
* Very influential on Europeans