80s Haute Couture | Fashion Documentary | HD

The ’80s were about flaunting it. Dressing for power by day and sin by night was the name of the game. EXCESS “Greed is good” was the catchphrase of the era. On Seventh Avenue and in London, Milan, and Paris that idea took form with flashy, more-is-more fashion. Hair was big, colors were saturated, shoulders had linebacker proportions, pearls were piled on, and skirts were either slashed to the thigh or ballooned into meringue-like poufs. And of course the fashion shows were just as glitzy and theatrical as the clothes themselves. SEX AND SUITS Dressing for success in the ’80s often meant borrowing from the boys. As fit and fashionable women strove to break the glass ceiling, the power suit was born. Traditional gender roles were turned upside down, and tailoring became a sexy aphrodisiac. TAKING IT TO THE STREETS Anna Wintour broke all the rules with her first Vogue cover in November 1988, and yet in doing so she was mirroring the times. Model Michaela Bercu was photographed on the stree