New Romantic
ニュー・ロマンティック / 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.
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
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Costume for live performance, stage or photography that remakes a performer as a historical fantasy · Creating a club's shared world through the dress code at its door
- Type
- Use a narrow serif or ornamental capital that points to one quoted period.
- Composition
- Center face and head, extending shoulders and sleeves sideways and hat or hair upward.
- Material
- Mix velvet, satin, frill, feather and metallic shine; design the makeup at equal strength.
- Caution
- Frills and heavy makeup alone become costume. Carry one historical character and its translation into the club present through the whole figure.
- Further study
- Blitz club dress code / Leigh Bowery and Stephen Jones / The route from punk to synth-pop image
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