The Sixties

Mary Quant is a fashion designer who, in the 1960's invented the mini skirt. She is now know as one of the most important fashion designers of the decade and influential figures in the fashion industry. This provided women the ability to show flesh without shocking people, but instead becoming fashion icons. Today the sixties are known for fashion being bold and daring and the decade where women wore exciting clothes. Like the twenties, this provided them more rights to look how they wanted to look, rather than cover due to others views. I want to compare this to today's fashion and it is becoming increasingly revealing but does it have the same effect? Do people wear these items to show people that fashion can express style and personality or do designers create these pieces to sell their brand?

Another designer that created an impact in the 1960's was Paco Rabanne. His fashion was an instant change for the usual womenswear of the time as it was exciting and extravagant. With heavily embellished dresses, the fashion was now fulled with glamour and unlike the stereotyped housewife of the 60's, this allowed another side of fashion to become apparent. The photo below is from the 60's a displays one of Rabannes designs. They were extremely detailed and decorative, much like the styles of the 20's. This photo is a great example of what I'm researching as the body position presents a sexual side of the fashion but at the same time, displays power by the model. What she's wearing gives her dominance without losing any womens rights.

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Figure 1 Konrad Siebenhüter. Do you remember? The 60's. 2013. [Online]. Available at http://knittingkonrad.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/do-you-remember-the-60s-fashion-icons-part-3/