Pop Art/Design,
Mid 1950s - Early 1970s
Pop Art made its debute in New York after
the popularity of Abstract Expressionism. Famous artists of the time were Andy
Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Claes Oldenburg. Pop artists
came more and more popular due to the post-WWII manufacturing and media boom.
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was a magazine and a fashion illustrator and also a graphic
designer. He made a lot of success with his screen printed images of Marilyn
Monroe and soup cans. When the Pop art movement found out about him, they made
him part of the movement and is now one of the first person that comes into mind
when we mention Pop art.
Campbell's Soup Cans, 1962
Andy Warhol, in 1962, decided to make a piece of art from the Campbell's Soup Cans.
This early series was hand-painted, but Warhol switched to screen printing
shortly afterwards. This art made a huge success and therefore The company of
Cambell’s soup itself created a dress with the soup cans printed on it. It was
called The Souper Dress and was made in 1966 with silkscreen printed paper 80%
cellulose 20% cotton. Customers could obtain the Souper dress by sending one
dollar and labels from two different kinds of soup to the company for each
dress, then hey received it in the mail.
The Souper Dress
Advert on the Souper Dress
The Rodnik Band Autumn/Winter 2011/2012
collection was inspired by Cambell’s tomato soup cans by Andy Warhol and
produced their version of the Souper dress. The collection was called Venus in
Sequins which paid homage to various artists, including Andy Warhol.
The Rodnik Band Autumn/Winter 2011/2012 collection
In 2014, Pepe Jeans collaborated with Andy Warhol to make a collection for
their children wear including Warhol’s design.
Pepe Jeans Andy Warhol collection
Even Converse came out with a collection of shoes in 1970 to commemorate
Andy Warhol’s Cambell soup designs.
Converse 1970 t Andy Warhol Cambell soup shoes
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Punk, Early
1970’s
The Punk rock subculture movement began in the United States when a lot of
teenagers didn’t continue with school and did not work. There were multiple
bands from the Punk era but the most known and the most ones that left
influences on the movement were the Sex Pistols.
Sex Pistols
Punk fashion consists of t-shirts, leather jackets and Doc Marten boots.
Hairstyles used to be in the style of a mohawk with bright colours. People
usually diy-ed the leather jackets and their clothes and put pins, buttons,
metal spikes and spikes and also painted band logos on them.
Sex Pistols
Vivienne Westwood was a British fashion designer
working with Malcolm McLaren and later became the personal stylist and designer
of the band Sex Pistols. McLaren and Westwood had a shop together named Sex
that made a huge name at the time. The Punk movement did not change only
fashion but also the type of music, from the hippie era of the 1960’s to very
loud Punk/Rock music.
Malcolm McLaren
Jamie Reid, an English artist, made posters for the Sex Pistols. In his work he included a lot of paper and letter cuts from newspaper headlines. Some of his famous works for the Sex Pistols are Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols and the singles "Anarchy in the UK", "God Save The Queen".
Malcolm McLaren
Vivienne Westwood on right
Sex - clothing shop
Jamie Reid, an English artist, made posters for the Sex Pistols. In his work he included a lot of paper and letter cuts from newspaper headlines. Some of his famous works for the Sex Pistols are Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols and the singles "Anarchy in the UK", "God Save The Queen".
Jamie Reid
Posters that Jamie Reid made for the Sex Pistols
Jenny Sun is a fashion designer that for her 2016 Autumn/Winter collection
was inspired by Vivienne Westwood and Katharine Hepburn. She admires Westwood
and Hepburn for their independent streak, and credits the London School of
Fashion for making her a 'pattern engineer'.
“To this day her clothes are characteristically Westwood and she remains
committed to her unique style, which is admirable for a brand that has been
running for decades” – Jenny Sun.
Jenny Sun Designs
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https://youtu.be/xbQaSo-SSVM -
About Sex pistols and Punk movement.
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Grunge, 1980’s - 1990’s
Grunge was a sebgenre of alternative rock that emerged in
Seattle in the 1980’s. By the early 1990’s, grunge had spread all through
America. Famous people at that time were Michael Jordan, Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe,
Elvis Presley and Abraham Lincoln.
At the time parties and thecno and electro music were very
popular. Nirvana was one of the most famous bands at the time. They became
commercially sucessful due to the releases of Nevermind, Pearl Jam’s Ten,
Soundgardens’s badmotorfinger, Alice in Chains’Dirt, and Stone Temple Pilots’s
Core. Since their type of music was alternative rock, they made grunge the most
popular form of hard rock music for the 1990’s.
Nirvana band members and fashion
From the type of
music, Grunge spread to fashion and to even graphic design. Clothing worn by
grunge followers consisted of thrift store and charity shop items. One of the
most worn clothing item was the flannel shirt.
Nirvana singer
and guitarist wearing the flannel shirt.
Flannel fashion
Nirvana band members and fashion
Kurt Cobain was
the start for all of this, he was the one to from the band Nirvana. Later he
started wearing clothes that were pulled liberally from both ends of a woman’s
and a man's wardrobe and his also from thrift-stores. At a time the more slouchy
and loose, no matter if you were a boy or a girl the more you were cool.
Kurt Cobain fashion
In 1992 the now
Famous designer Marc Jacobs used to work for Perry Ellis and in that year he
released a collection inspired by the youth-centric subculture, the Grunge
movement. The collection included of a lot of flannel and Cobain was a
household name.
Marc Jacobs for Perry Ellis, 1992
Video:
https://youtu.be/VZ_FoZBvZxI - Grunge Fashion
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