1930s/Southwestern United States
Zoot suit has high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed peggedtrousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders. Mexican American youths who developed their own subculture during the 1930s and 1940s in the Southwestern United States. They wore distinctive clothes and spoke their own dialect. Often zoot suiters wear a felt hat with a long feather and pointy, French-style shoes.
Kevan Hall RTW Spring 2009
Some of the garments in this collection are wide and pointed lapels with zoot suit-style. The result of all collection was a pre-Technicolor palette that lent itself beautifully to the designer’s structured “let’s do lunch” day dresses and signature diva gowns trimmed with crystals.
John Galliano/ Spring 2002
It is an imposing checkered snakeskin zoot suit paved the way for Mexican-beaded shirts and suits, wide denim ensembles embroidered with cars, and a great knitted Andean coat.
2.Beatniks
Marilyn Monroe, 1960s
The concept of Beatniks was to promote anti-materialistic lifestyle. It represented a philosophy of anti-materialism and was a direct inspiration for the hippies’ movement. The “sex pot meets Beatnik” style, the sweater over the black catsuit, Monroe wore.
Betsey Johnson/Fall 2008
Betsey Johnson's beatnik romp was Bryant Park, but the imaginary setting was a dark and smoky joint in the Village like the Bottom Line or the Bitter End. Johnson aimed for a "beatnik chic," complete with bongo players at the head of the runway and VIPs seated at cafe tables complete with candy cigarettes and roses stuck in Chianti bottles, but Johnson seemed to find much inspiration in the '60s and '70s, with a mod A-line minidress, hot pants, and a few off-the-shoulder founcy peasant blouses and dresses.
3.Teddy Boys
The Teddyboys wore was designed to shock their parents' generation. It emerged in the 1950s as Britain was coming to the end of post-war austerity and represented the first face of British youth culture. It consisted of an Edwardian style drape jacket, much too 'camp' for a working class man.
Charles Anastase/ Fall 2009
This collection influence by secaond hand garments and teddyboys style, which with suit jacket and suits style. There's no Charles Anastase, showing at LFW for only the second time, found inspiration in his own youth, creating looks that spanned several subcultures; goth, punk, and teddy boys, among others. According to Anastase "It was an autobiographical show and I was looking at my teenage years. It is about youth culture with strong elements of today."
4.Mods
1967, London
Mod fashion started in London, in the 60s. A small group of young people started to look to French and Italian cool, combined with American Ivy League style to create their own unique British youth fashion.
Philip Lim Fall 2009
Philip Lim’s Fall 2009 collection ispired by 60’s rock and mod style, the designs were reminiscent of the Beatles, Mick Jagger and Jimi Hendrix. From more conservative suits to youthful minis, there’s really something for everyone with this line. A very on-trend one shoulder dress followed by a house dress and goat hair jacket show the extent of diversity in this line.
Philip Lim’s Fall 2009 collection ispired by 60’s rock and mod style, the designs were reminiscent of the Beatles, Mick Jagger and Jimi Hendrix. From more conservative suits to youthful minis, there’s really something for everyone with this line. A very on-trend one shoulder dress followed by a house dress and goat hair jacket show the extent of diversity in this line.
5.Hippies
1960s
The hippie was a youth subculture that began in San Francisco during the 60s. Hippies valued their own communities, listened to rock music, supported the sexual revolution. Bright colored clothing, jeans and long hair are their styles.
Anna Sui, Spring 2009
This collection is in the hippie style, colorful and free. There are plenty of pretty new styles anyone can pull off, including these fuss-free, flattering looks.
Miss Sixty has a hippie, fun, hip seventies vibe that is playful and wearable, something much needed in fashion right now.
6.Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music that originated in African American. The disco style was born in the 1970s. People like hugging suits, wide flared trousers and platform shoes, etc.
Gucci, 2009 RST
Gucci is bringing back some key elements of 70's Disco style. The long, flowing hair, with the part down the middle, psychodelic colors and patterns
Christoph Decarnin, 2009
It was a collection with Disco and Glam-Rock style. Super-sparkling studs on shimmering slinky dresses and bold, pointed shoulders make up the Fall 2009 ready-to-wear Balmain Collection by Christoph Decarnin.
7.Punk
UK punks,1986
Punk emerged in the 1975 to 1978 in both Europe and the US.
Anna Sui's Spring 2008
When it comes to Anna Sui's quirky clothing, no matter how funky or punky she goes with her designs, somehow it always works. Almost like a walking cartoon, Sui's designs bring to mind an edgy gal with razor-sharp wit and a zany zest for life.
Alexander Wang fall 2008
Alexander Wang fall 2008 collection featured models storming the runway in a street urchin-y mix of slashed, holey denim, ripped stockings, and zippered black-and-white waistcoats.
The thing about punk is that no matter how mainstream the idea has become the look itself is eternally fringe and still strangely potent. The most important thing is to avoid cliché.
8.Hip Hop
Hip hop style appear in low-income urban areas in the 80s, hip hop portrayed the disfranchisement and distrust of the status quo. It represents fashion for urban spaces and is an expression of the socially marginalized.Color or thematic matching of formal, military, and sport garments showed the ingenuity of less affluent but style-conscious youngsters.
BABY PHAT SPRING '09
Baby Phat has officially transitioned from street fashion to runway sophisticate. The designs were hip hop chic with retro jumpsuits and head scarves.
