Compose styles
Rather than blending styles toward a middle, this gives them roles. The first one carries the structure, the next comes in as the accent, and anything after that shows up in a single detail. Where they fight each other, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow New Romantic: Center face and head, extending shoulders and sleeves sideways and hat or hair upward
- Type
- Set in New Romantic's manner (Use a narrow serif or ornamental capital that points to one quoted period), and let Punk's lettering (Mix newsprint letters, handwriting and stamps) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in New Romantic's material (Mix velvet, satin, frill, feather and metallic shine; design the makeup at equal strength); bring in exactly one thing from Punk (Copier paper, tears, black plus a warning color).
- Colour
- Build on #F2E8DA, #C13B72, #1D1730 and admit one accent from #eee3cf, #ef3127, #10100f.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- New Romantic Frills and heavy makeup alone become costume. Carry one historical character and its translation into the club present through the whole figure.
- Punk Borrowed rebellion is hollow. Decide what you are protesting first.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from New Romantic (style, 1979–1983) and their accent from Punk (style, 1970s–1980s). ## What to make Make the kind of thing New Romantic exists for: costume for live performance, stage or photography that remakes a performer as a historical fantasy, or creating a club's shared world through the dress code at its door. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from New Romantic - Frilled shirts, sashes and quotations of military or pirate dress - Whitened face, strong blush and asymmetric makeup - Large head silhouette built from hats, feathers and jewelry - Historic costume mixed with synthetics and futuristic shine Composition: Center face and head, extending shoulders and sleeves sideways and hat or hair upward. Type and lettering: Use a narrow serif or ornamental capital that points to one quoted period. ## Accent comes from Punk, used sparingly - Cut-and-paste letters - Photocopier noise - Handwriting - Ragged placement Let one material quality come from it: Copier paper, tears, black plus a warning color. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #F2E8DA, carry the structure in #C13B72 and #1D1730, and let a single accent come from #ef3127. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: exhilaration, play, rebellion. ## What goes wrong - New Romantic: Frills and heavy makeup alone become costume. Carry one historical character and its translation into the club present through the whole figure. - Punk: Borrowed rebellion is hollow. Decide what you are protesting first. ## Across the four Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture. ## Constraints - Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. - Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work. - Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- New Romantic 1979–1983 / Style / Subculture Style
Born around London's Blitz club, New Romantic dress turned punk's black destruction into theatrical self-invention by mixing pirates, Regency dress, cabaret and futuristic materials. A look was built as a character for the night, not bought complete.
- Punk 1970s–1980s / Style / Counterculture
A DIY objection to the authority of the tidy, made by cutting, pasting and dirtying.
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