Monday, September 8, 2008

Coming for '09: That "True Faith" Look

Last spring the Times' Men's style magazine section thingy, under the T brand, had a profile on the old Buffalo look of the early eighties ('82-ish). Then, yesterday, a rumination on the Italian 80's paninaro phenomenon, as immortalized in:



So, what's the 20+ year old British pop trend that will be trotted out for next spring? Greebo, with thoughts on Zodiac Mindwarp's "outrageous style"? Maybe some paisley shirts with paragraphs re: bands like the March Violets and a picture of the cover of The Cult's Electric, (when it should be Love to capture the period they are speaking of)? C86 long coats and anoraks? No, my vote is on another profile of Peter Saville, complete with how he designed the cover below after a drive through Ladbroke Grove and the alighting of this leaf on his windscreen,:
but with, i dunno, the Badgley Mischka dudes or Thom Browne saying how inspiring it all was. Oh and a picture of Johnny Marr in Sterling Morrison-style VU shades and beads from '83.
Clip and save this and see if I'm right!

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