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  • 131fashion, 1970s —    British fashion trends of the early 1970s reflected the diffusion of the ‘total look’ which had been cultivated by the celebrity designers of 1960s London. Where the designers of ‘the look’ had laid claim to the values of urbanism and pop,… …

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  • 132fashion, 1980s —    Among the most striking features of the designer decade was the proliferation of a generalized postmodern aesthetics and stylistic sensibility (see postmodernism). Postmodern motifs of image, simulacrum, surface, spectacle, nostalgia, pastiche …

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