Glam Rock Fashion
グラムロック・ファッション / 1971–1975 / Style / Fashion History
Early-1970s British rock used glitter, platforms, emphatic makeup, body-fitting clothes and quotations from science fiction and cabaret to turn performers into deliberately artificial stars separated from everyday life.
Glitter, sequins and metallic shine / Platform boots and fitted jumpsuits / Strong eye makeup, colored hair and facial geometry / Science fiction, Hollywood, cabaret and music hall mixed together
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Presenting a performer as an artificial star in live shows and cover imagery · Using excessive clothing and makeup to blur borders of gender and period
- Type
- Choose either heavy rock lettering or a narrow science-fiction face and pair it with a metallic edge.
- Composition
- Emphasize the vertical full-body line, building one silhouette from platforms through the hair.
- Material
- Reflect glitter, sequins, satin and metallic foil hard under stage lighting; paint the same geometry on the face.
- Caution
- Glitter and platforms alone make a 1970s costume. Build the performer's artificial persona through sound, stance and makeup too.
- Further study
- David Bowie and Ziggy Stardust / Roxy Music and theatrical artifice / Glam's influence on punk and New Romantic
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