# Glam Rock Fashion (グラムロック・ファッション)

> 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.

- IndexStyle No.577 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/glam-rock-fashion
- Kind: Style · Family: Fashion History · Era: 1971–1975
- Mood: Exhilaration, Play, Rebellion
- What this family collects: Read together, these show that when the shape of clothing changed, so did rules about bodies, gender and class, and the illustrated plate that spread the news is here too.

## Defining characteristics

- 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

## 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

## Composition recipe

- Typography & lettering: Choose either heavy rock lettering or a narrow science-fiction face and pair it with a metallic edge.
- Layout & structure: Emphasize the vertical full-body line, building one silhouette from platforms through the hair.
- Material & texture: Reflect glitter, sequins, satin and metallic foil hard under stage lighting; paint the same geometry on the face.

## Colour

Read off the reference works below, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.

- Ground: #C8A84E
- The colour it is remembered by: #D63A9D
- Text and outlines: #111111

## What to avoid

Glitter and platforms alone make a 1970s costume. Build the performer's artificial persona through sound, stance and makeup too.

## Application checklist

Work through this before calling a piece an application of this style.

- [ ] Visible in the piece: Glitter, sequins and metallic shine
- [ ] Visible in the piece: Platform boots and fitted jumpsuits
- [ ] Visible in the piece: Strong eye makeup, colored hair and facial geometry
- [ ] Visible in the piece: Science fiction, Hollywood, cabaret and music hall mixed together
- [ ] The layout follows: Emphasize the vertical full-body line, building one silhouette from platforms through the hair.
- [ ] The lettering follows: Choose either heavy rock lettering or a narrow science-fiction face and pair it with a metallic edge.
- [ ] The material and surface follow: Reflect glitter, sequins, satin and metallic foil hard under stage lighting; paint the same geometry on the face.
- [ ] The colour relation holds: #C8A84E as ground, #D63A9D carrying the style, #111111 for text and outlines
- [ ] At least one reference work below has been studied directly
- [ ] The caution above ("What to avoid") has been addressed

## Related styles

- **Camp Fashion (キャンプ・ファッション)** — A sensibility that loves artifice, exaggeration, theatricality, parody and excess, enjoying the line between good and bad taste. Its force is not loudness alone but seriousness enlarged until it turns into humor and critique. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/camp-fashion
- **Space Age Fashion (スペースエイジ・ファッション)** — The couture avant-garde of the 1960s translated the optimism of the space race into experiments with material, using metal, plastic and geometric cuts to present the body as an object of the future. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/space-age-fashion

## Compose it with something else

The dictionary can put this entry in a structural role and another in an accent role, and report where the two fight: https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=glam-rock-fashion+camp-fashion

## Further study

- David Bowie and Ziggy Stardust
- Roxy Music and theatrical artifice
- Glam's influence on punk and New Romantic

## Reference works

- V&A — Glam Rock: Dandies in the Underworld — https://www.vam.ac.uk/shop/books/fashion-and-textiles/glam-rock-dandies-in-the-underworld-122197.html

## AI interpretation

An AI-generated interpretation image exists for browsing convenience only — it is not a reference work: https://indexstyle.org/ai/glam-rock-fashion.jpg

## Source of record

- V&A — Glam Rock: Dandies in the Underworld — https://www.vam.ac.uk/shop/books/fashion-and-textiles/glam-rock-dandies-in-the-underworld-122197.html

## Machine surfaces

- JSON: https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/glam-rock-fashion
- Image-generation prompt (legally clean): https://indexstyle.org/styles/glam-rock-fashion/prompt.txt
- MCP: https://indexstyle.org/mcp (tools: search_styles, get_style, compare_styles, compose_styles, find_related_styles; prompts: image-prompt, apply-style)