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FashionFollower Hipsterville & 28 Crash!
Magazines like "Rolling Stone" and "Spin" feature fashion spreads regularly while style rags and fashion designers have rock stars posing for them. MTV has "House Of Style" and "Fashionably Loud" while VH-1 has it's "Fashion Awards" and "Fashion Television". The Tommy Hilfiger sponsered "Rock Fashion" exhibit made it's way from New York, to Cleveland, to London with overwhelming popularity. And let's not forget all of that pop music being spun by DJs at the fashion shows every season. While fashion is usually thought of as women's issue, the fashion-music connection has, surprisingly, been more of a "guy thing" (lady Madonna nonewithstanding). When thinking back through the beginning of rock music, the most influential style makers were men. It was guys like Elvis and Buddy Holly who inspired the masses to grease back their hair and wear black framed specs. Half a decade later, The Beatles got everyone to let their hair down while other British Invaders like The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, and The Who turned many boys onto dandified peacock fashion. The 70's belonged to David Bowie when trying to figure out what he would wear next became an international pastime. The 80's owed a bit to him as well, as romantic and glam-styled bands like Duran Duran topped the charts and stormed television screens via MTV. At the same time, Prince made us all crazy about purple while Michael Jackson danced his flood-wearing-leather-jacket- sporting-self into the record books.
A nation lived in, and went out in, flannel shirts and dirty blue jeans. On the other side of the Atlantic, the equally casual Stone Roses were reviving the British music scene wearing baggie flares and oversized football jerseys. However, as the decade wore on, the tide began to change again. Brits like Kula Shaker, Suede, and Pulp began to dress like the rock stars they had become by mixing glam, psychedelia, mod, and thrift-store chic. A slew of long-tressed American rockers cut their hair and seemed to care about their appearence. The good ol' days were coming back! It's a new millenium now, and it's nice to know that flannel shirts have not returned to the height of fashion. And although most lads won't go near feathers and sequins as Lenny Kravitz might, most of them do like to dress to thrill every now and again. So, this magazine salutes those guys who take the time to look good and the ones who looked good in the past. Because, as we all know, every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp-dressed man.
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Music and fashion have been intertwined ever since Elvis Presley stepped into his blue suede shoes. Although there is still a debate over which influences which, it is evident that the connection now is as stronger as ever.
But the '90's saw a mood swing. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden unintentionally made Seattle grunge
style so popular that it ended up on the 7th Avenue runways (unsuccessfully, mind you).
