“I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.” ThinkingLooksPersonsMadeBigsGrowingFashionBearsClothesCrossesExpensiveAdolescence80sCrosses To Bear Author:Vince Vaughn
“Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died.” PeopleWorldFeelsArtStillsUsedEnergyAliveFashionNew YorkHappeningsExcitingDiedFingersUsed To Be80sArt WorldSynergyFashion World Author:Madonna Ciccone
“The thing that I really love about the 80s is, there was a sense of hand made-ness about the fashion then. You could have a pair of jeans and dump some bleach on them, and make them something that was really trendy for that era.” MadeHandsFashionErasPairsJeans80sDumpTrendyBleach Author:Alyssa Milano
“When I was a kid in San Diego, I would read fashion magazines and Interview magazine, and all of that really inspired me to create a persona. So by the time I moved to New York, in the early '80s, I'd learned how to create a persona, and I knew what my persona would be.” Would BeKidsFashionNew YorkMovedInspiredMagazinesInterviews80sPersonaSan DiegoFashion Magazines Author:RuPaul
“Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics.” MomentsPoliticalFashionRevolutionAncientDuesTrends80sDefiningDefining MomentsPolitical History Author:Daphne Guinness
“My fashion was not the best in the '80s. I looked crazy as hell. I used to wear my pants tucked into my socks and karate handkerchiefs around my wrist. It was ridiculous, how I used to dress in the '80s.” UsedHellCrazyFashionDressesRidiculousPants80sSockWristsKarateHandkerchiefs Author:Deon Cole
“The only people who really love the '80s are millennials. We had Reagan and Bush for our entire youth, the culture was terrible, the fashions were terrible, the movies were terrible.” PeopleCultureFashionYouthTerrible80sMillennials Author:Brett Morgen
“In retrospect, I think a lot of '80s fashion shoots are the ones that look the most modern. The fitness-based ones that are really minimal. It's clean, healthy, t-shirt, beach hair... it's athleisure.” ThinkingLooksModernFashionHairHealthyCleanBeachShirts80sT ShirtRetrospect Author:Christy Turlington