Do you remember the 60s?
Well I don’t! But here are the FASHION ICONS who have had a great influence to fashion in the swinging sixties and some of their designs.
“I am tired of good taste,” Zandra Rhodes once said. “I want to do everything wrong and get a result that is of value and valid as well.”
The Art of Zandra Rhodes, by Zandra Rhodes and Anne Knight. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
Zandra Rhodes Photograph by Berry Berenson. Published in Vogue, September 1, 1970.
http://www.vogue.com/voguepedia/Zandra_Rhodes#cite_note-0
Knitted Circle evening dress, Zandra Rhodes, 1969. Museum no. T.358-1974
Victoria and Albert Museum
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/z/zandra-rhodes/
Knitted Circle Evening dress Zandra Rhodes 1969 Printed silk chiffon
Museum no. T.357-1974
Victoria and Albert Museum
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/z/zandra-rhodes/
“Proper attention to dress,” said Jean Muir, “is a sign of self-respect and respect for the order of things.”
Jean Muir 1960s
http://vintageandsunshine.tumblr.com/post/13353604971
Dress Jean Muir (1933-95) 1966 Suede Museum no. T.250-1978
given by Mrs Ernestine Carter
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Unlike her art school peers, Jean Muir learned her trade in the fashion industry. Celebrated as a gifted dressmaker, she worked for Liberty, Jaeger and Jane and Jane during the 1950s and ’60s. Her clothes were always a subtle demonstration of the sculptural qualities of fabric, with suede a particular favourite.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/f/1960s-fashion-london/
…the classic Biba dolly…was very pretty and young. She had an upturned nose, rosy cheeks and a skinny body with long asparagus legs and tiny feet. She was square-shouldered and quite flat-chested. Her head was perched on a long, swanlike neck. Her face was a perfect oval, her lids were heavy with long, spiky lashes. She looked sweet but was as hard as nails. She did what she felt like at that moment and had no mum to influence her judgement. Barbara Hulanicki
Biba founder Barbara Hulanicki http://theswinginsixties.tumblr.com/post/38560167243/books-photography-designer-fashion-clothes-internet-shop
Coat Barbara Hulanicki (British, born 1936) Date: ca. 1969 Culture: British Medium: cotton Dimensions: Length at CB: 56 in. (142.2 cm) Credit Line: Gift of Bernice Shaftan, 2005 Accession Number: 2005.94.2 http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/115275
Paulene Stone in a Barbara Hulanicki dress for Biba, photo John French. England, 1964 http://bygonefashion.livejournal.com/195314.html
Ossie Clark was my dad’s youngest brother, and Uncle Ossie was this extraordinary and flamboyant character who from time to time visited my Gran’s in Warrington.
Ossie Clark in his workshop, 1969 http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/tag/ossie-clark/
Devon Wilson in Ossie Clark 1960s
1960s dress by Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell.
knittingkonrad 
LOVE this post! I love the 60s clothes and also love that it still influences designers today. We had so much fun with clothes and broke all the rules, it was a great time. What’s in your next post??
Thank you so much, Kristen! After doing the research for this blog series, I really believe that the 60s are still rocking ans swinging in modern fashion. The next parts will continue with more FASHION ICONS, who are the animating spirits during the 60s and I will show some of the women and muses whom these designers have worked for. Hope you have fun following these parts.
Great post Konrad……makes me want to go back….for me it was the 70’s…….I’d started working at 17….loved my bell bottomed jeans……that makes me smile……
Such fantastic items of clothing, although I am now wishing they were hanging up in my wardrobe rather than in museums.
You are so right! I guess, walking down a street in such a dress, even today will be shocking (in a very positive way)!