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• Why was Madonna’s look – styled by Maripol in 1982 – so typical for the 1980’s ?

  Big hairspray hair, tight clothes etc

• What are the two opposite styles in fashion during the eighties? Name fashion designers as examples for both styles.

  • -The body revealed(JPG) vs. The body covered up. (Johij Yamamoto)

• Which designers started to create unisex looks?

  • Katherinne Hammet, JPG?

• Why is 'androgynous' one of the keywords of the eighties? Think of the movie American Gigolo and also of the shifting of male and female characteristics.

  --Combination of masceline and female characteristics.

• What connects Jean Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Stephen Sprouse?

  • --JMB was an artist in the 80’s so was Keith Haring and Stephen Sprouse was a fashion designer and artist credited with pioneering the 1980s mix of "uptown sophistication in clothing with a downtown punk and pop sensibility" ^[1].

• Try to describe the look of the famous London based brand 'Bodymap'.

  • --Cut stretched fabric misplaced additional volume.

• Do you understand the importance of such magazines as The Face, i-D, Blitz or Dazed & Confused in an era without internet?

  • --Yes because with these magazines, trends would spread all over the world(now we have internet).

• What is gender bending?

  • ---is an informal term used to refer to a person who actively transgresses, or "bends," expected gender roles

• Why can American Gigolo be seen as a 'time capsule of the 1980’s’?

  • --Because it typically shows the zeithgeist of the 80’s, with culture, music, fashion etc.

• Do you understand how the new type of ready-to-wear fashion designers (like Jean Paul Gaultier or Thierry Mugler) differed from the old 'couturiers'?

  • Yes qua style.