The Swinging Sixties

The 60's! Easily one of my favourite decades of modern fashion and history. The 60's was the age of Rebellion, modern fashion and the birth of modern music. The rebellion nature came from the teenagers and students not wanting to end up like their parents and wanting independence, not wanting to look or sound like their parents. This actually started in the 50's with the rise of Elvis and actors such as James Dean, but became world wide in the 60's. Girls wore short dresses, which was seen as disgraceful for women at the time and the men wore leather jackets and boot cut jeans. The age of Rock and Pop become the fashion of that decade and carries on into the next decade. The most prominent band that came form the 60's and are still the most successful music act in history were The Beatles. A band formed in Liverpool, England gained world wide fame and 'Beatlemania' was spreading across the world. Another note to popular music was The Jackson 5, a pop group in America become popular, while Elvis was got his come back and became more popular than ever. Fashion of the 60's was rebellious, the most famous has got to be the Hippie movement that started in the mid 60's, where people of all ages but more prominent in students, disbanded from society to form their own and live the life os free spirited people who didn't have to listen to the 'Man' as they call it. There was also another trend from the 60's I forgot to mention, the Mods, a subculture group of people which is hard to pin point what it actually was because it was continuously reinventing itself. But this movement was generally of working-class people who didn't like the dull and boring fashion and wanted to reinvent modern fashion at the time. 60's Mood Board

Fashion and Trends. 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and 00's

Fashion has changed drastically throughout the decades, to the Hippies of the 60's to the modern day fashion we know today. In the next posts I will be talking about all the different trends of the decades and how the old trends have influenced the newer trends also. In the next posts I will link each decade to a pinterest mood board I have created showing the different trends of each decade. Also I will be uploading more and more to each of them as the project progresses so the mood boards will continue to have more content.

Gothic, Scene, Punk, Emo and Rock Mood Board

Gothic, Scene, Punk, Emo and Rock Fashion This is my mood board for my chosen choice of fashion for my project, the fashion of the people I socialise with. I will continue to update this pinterest mood board as well.

Pinterest Mood Board

20th Century Art Mood Board This is a mood board of different art movements of the 20th century. It varies from Impressionism to pop art. I will keep updating this mood board as my project progresses.

Our Project

This project we are doing is about websites and social media. In this project we will be writing a blog of all our updates on the project but we will also be creating a website based on a topic we choose but it has to be about fashion's of the 20th century. The topic I chose was about the fashion of people I socialise with outside of college. We are a mixed group of people, but mostly our fashion is linked to Punk, Gothic, Scene, Grunge, Emo and Rock style. I will post pictures as I take them of my friends and give you a brief overview of their fashion but also my and their opinions on it too.