Strange days: How changed Blitz Club Eighties – Fashion fashion
andOr a nightclub for less than 18 months ago, with Blitz – which opened on 4 Queen Street in Kovet Garden, London, was in February 1979 and closed in October 1980 – an external influence on the UK culture.
It was created by Scalester Rusty EGAN and the ambitious pop star, which has the best 10 success, fades to Gray, with Viseged Visage, Tuesday night party in the area of 200 people, quickly where you can be seen if you are young, cold or creative. From the famous, the stars of the pop pop in the era, including Spandaw Ballet, Sad, and Boy George, produced. On an equal footing, although fashion was essential for its success.
A new exhibition at the Design Museum, Blitz: The club that formed the eightiesAttempts to empty its cultural and mortal history, which are characterized by clothes, photography, magazines and even a friendly entertainment of the bar with beer bottles and the drop of “EGAN” music.
The exhibition includes elements made by regular two fashion designers, Stephen Linard, who worked for David Bouy, Pwaj George, Melnener Stephen Jones, David Halle, Steve Stewart, and Darla Jin Gelry, which appeared in 1980 Video of ash to ash. It also shows amazing creativity sometimes for club fashion. The experiment led to the mixing of sewing in the 1940s with theatrical costumes, the discovery of the charitable store, and the full faces of makeup and hair that challenged gravity. In a video shown in the exhibition, one of the club’s pioneers describes how it takes three hours to prepare to go out.
The things listed here – from the club’s publications to the covers, early records and versions of magazines such as ID and The Face – worth the examination. But pictures of the so -called children who call Blitz are the ones who display them convincingly in time. The wall of the pictures includes the artist Dugie Fields in a suit and Quiff in the 1940s; Two club pioneers with makeup to resemble women in the blue period in Picasso; A woman wears the uniform of Queen Elizabeth I; Linard in the lace hat, Billbox hat and a coated man in Clingfilm smoking a cigarette. Boy, photographer in a leather shirt pour beer, the infantry looks relatively in contrast to it.
In a examination of the exhibition, the coordinator, Daniel Thg, said that the time when these young people lived were part of the experimental reason. “The fashion has provided an element of escape,” she said. “It is the end of the winter of discontent, the Tatcher was elected … although, in most cases, they did not see themselves in particular politicians in the sense that they were political active, they were undoubtedly affected by the political context of the day – the high unemployment, the Ben’s bags literally accumulate in the streets.”
Punk – although he was on his way out by 1979 – was necessary for how Blitz’s appearance developed. “In terms of their soul and work, the spirit of the wicked continued greatly – the idea of DIY and ignoring the current hierarchical sequences of taste,” said Young people who went to the raid often live in squatting, and they rejected a 9-5 lifestyle. “[But] Pictures of the villain, his salt about deliberate offensive images, and deliberate ugliness as a provocation, was consciously rejected by embracing elegance and a degree of romance. ”Thom argues that, such as music and graphic design at that time, the fashion“ postmodernism – choosing and choosing the past to create something new. ”
If the scene itself is small, then it will soon wave the horizon in the media, thanks to Strang. “It was very proactive,” said gara. Journalists were ringing and saying: “I got this night’s night. You should come and look at a lot of television clips and newspapers listed at the exhibition show, coverage was more likely to show the alarm in clothes more than in her favor. However, the Strange Strategy – soon, has succeeded, there were queues to enter Tuesday night.
Fashion, again, was essential to buy this new popularity. “A lot of uniqueness has been made, so that you can only enter if you look at the right thing. But this uniqueness was a safety strategy as much as it was about creating mystery,” said gara. “Blitz was not openly a gay club, meaning that the sky might be, but it was a club in which many ordinary attendees were gay, who were exploring their sexual identities.” The strange costumes – who stood at the door and decided to allow him – allowed his customers to protect. “This is London in 1980, and it is not exactly a tolerant time or place.” “Inside Blitz was a safe space – to use a contemporary term.”
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This exhibition is the latest in a Series Exploring 80s Club Culture – from Leigh Bowry Retrospective in Tate Modern to the National Portive Gallery Survey for Face Outlaws in the Fashion and Textile Museum, who looked at fashion designers who were part of this scene. Thom believes that this new attention is partially due to timing. “For people who were not there the first time, there is a modernity about how everything was an acting,” she says. “For people in the fifties and sixties of the age, it is a success from nostalgia to the past.”
More exciting, there is a magic of sadness. “You can say that many of the conditions were made [80s club culture] Thom says: “It can be eroded,” the nightclubs are closed at a rate that warns of danger due to the high rents. The university again is to keep those who can withstand its costs. Even a simple thing like the sources of your used clothes, it is a very professional ancient market, it does not do a charitable store and find an amazing deal. “
In these conditions, this exhibition is the latest in a series of shows that exceed more than strange clothes, the children of fun and pop stars in Abhi. “I hope this is a warning and a love message for the importance of the club’s culture,” said gara.