GLAMSQUAD MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2017
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Fashion Innovators...<br />
Mary Quant<br />
Trend innovators like designers<br />
Mary Quant and the Parisian<br />
counterpart Andre Courreges<br />
have been credited with giving us<br />
the invention of the mini skirt in<br />
the 1960’s. The credit seems to<br />
have been favoured more towards<br />
Quant who reportedly is said to<br />
have named the mini skirt after her<br />
favourite car the Mini. The mini<br />
influence is still clearly visible today.<br />
vidal sassoon<br />
British hair stylist Vidal Sassoon<br />
has been credited with creating<br />
some of the most iconic haircuts<br />
in the 60’s revolutionising the hair<br />
dressing industry with precise,<br />
geometric swing bobs which<br />
transformed the stiff 1950’s up do.<br />
He transformed the hairdressing<br />
industry from the 50s influence into<br />
a new era giving women a relaxed,<br />
edgy and stylish look redefining the<br />
past decades.<br />
Yves Saint Laurent<br />
The late master of fashion Yves<br />
Saint Laurent in his Spring<br />
Summer 1966 Haute Couture<br />
collection introduced “Le Smoking”<br />
the female Tuxedo redefining<br />
the female silhouette and almost<br />
turning the fashion industry on<br />
its head if not scandalising it at<br />
that time. Before this the Tuxedo<br />
was always a male domain. This<br />
innovation has become a wardrobe<br />
stable for generations, the epitome<br />
of sex appeal and a symbol of what<br />
one may call girl power. In today’s<br />
view it could easily be considered<br />
the alternative it the little black<br />
dress.<br />
andy warhol<br />
Andy Warhol was an American<br />
artist who was a leading<br />
figure in the movement of pop<br />
art. He particularly explored the<br />
relationship between advertising,<br />
artistic expression and celebrity<br />
culture. He was an icon if not easily<br />
one of the most celebrated of the<br />
pop art movement that started off in<br />
the 1950s.<br />
grace jones<br />
Iconic singer and actress Grace<br />
Jones presented the androgynous<br />
unconventional gender identity of<br />
herself uniquely, whilst celebrating<br />
masculinity almost over her<br />
femininity and making bold<br />
expressive fashion statements in<br />
the process. On and off stage she is<br />
the ultimate fashion diva and icon.<br />
Not everyone however will be<br />
a style icon. While some will<br />
be trends setters and innovators,<br />
majority will follow and be<br />
influenced by these outstanding<br />
individuals, industry professionals<br />
and experts. Celebrity culture, the<br />
norm of the present where most<br />
famous people are now considered<br />
celebrity fashion designers offer<br />
their perspectives within the world<br />
of fashion, beauty, cosmetics and<br />
perfumery sectors. They nowadays<br />
influence a great deal of consumer<br />
perception of style, trends, and<br />
products alike. The main forecast<br />
and trends however come from the<br />
main fashion houses who dictate<br />
season after season our style<br />
choices and the diffusions that filter<br />
down the consumer chain from<br />
high street stores to mass markets.
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