If you are in the least bit familiar with the history of fashion then you know who Mary Quant is. The English fashion designer, is one of the few who took credit for inventing the miniskirt and hot pants in the 60's. Mary Quant named the miniskirt after her favorite car, the Mini.

1930s & 40s Hollywood Style Shoot.

Fashion during the "Great Depression"

Marjorie White sings "I'm On A Diet Of Love" from 1929 -- Whispering Jack Smith appears briefly and George Olsen and his Music play the music

VINTAGE 70S EMPIREWAIST EARTHA KITT COSTUME GRACE JONES, VINTAGE 70s EMPIRE WAIST EARTHA KITT/ GRACE JONES HALLOWEEN COSTUME

Grace Jones' masculine attire, height (5' 10½" (1.79 m) and manner was a clear influence on the 'power dressing' movement of the 1980s.

70s performance from Disco diva Amanda Lear

Despite modelling nude for Playboy Magazine in 1977 and Amanda saying "and they could see I was a woman like everybody else"[2], she was and still is widely rumoured to be either a transsexual or an intersexual because of her height (5ft 9.25 /176 cm), her masculine facial features and, most of all, her exceptionally low baritone-like vocal t

Fashions include mini-dresses, hats and shifts. Ted Lapidus - a legendary name in the world of fashion and luxury goods. With his hands in an easy fashion entered safari jackets and marine bleyzery. Bold inovator, unisex style he introduced to the world of high fashion. As a recognized genius, he wore such persons as members Beatles, Brigitte Bardot, Frank Sinatra. He selects the music for

Swinging Sixties by Christopher Breward

In April 1966, Time famously touted London as the new world center of style. Forty years later, this book reconsiders the roles played by designers like Mary Quant, celebrities like Twiggy, boutiques like Biba, photographers like David Bailey, magazines, and filmmakers in promoting a new, more relaxed, more colorful way of dressing that reverberated

In the UK Teddy Boy revival of the fashions and the United States, have encouraged the fans rockabilly greaser look, in which men are flamboyant pompadour hairstyles, with a bunch of long hair and sideburns ointment, also comb hair straight , but again is the favorite pompadour The most look.

1929 from The Delineator "Paris modes". To Paris Delineator presents the spring mode.

The winner of the "Miss America 1951" pageant, Yolande Betbeze, refused to pose in a swimsuit from its major sponsor, Catalina swimwear. As a result, the brand's manufacturer Pacific Mills withdrew from Miss America and set up the Miss USA and Miss Universe contests. The first Miss Universe Pageant was held in Long Beach, California in 1952.

Born to Italian parents who had fled to France from Francavilla Fontana,Brindisi because of the fascist Italian government.

Drawing lines of influence between art and fashion seems to be one of my favorite pastimes. So today, for inspiration, I'd like to take a virtual trip to the museum, MoMA to be exact...

For those of you who really aren't loving all the micro-minis on the racks right now, check out my latest article on Second City Style.

Anne Hathaway was sparkling in a Eryn brinié's black sequence mini skirt at the Tina Turner concert at NYC’s Madison Square Garden earlier in the week.

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There was the micro mini of the 60s disco inspired duds of the 70s and punk inspired rags of the 80s Whatever the next fashion fad stand tall in your elegant knit separates by Silk Assets.