Monday, August 27, 2012
Friday, August 3, 2012
BOY GEORGE: A MUSIC AND FASHION ICON.
George Alan O'Dowd, alias Boy George is one of those personalities who signed the 80s.
In fact, through to the outrageous looks he proposed, he was able to express himself in a way that very few people did before (David Bowie is one of his predecessor), and thanks to that Boy George became a star back then and is still considered both a music and fashion icon.
The very beginning of his career sees him among the Blitz Kids, a group of young Londoners who hung out at the Blitz Club, in London.
They were considered the most popular guys around London's club scene especially because of their way of dressing up for the public.
Among them,
Steve Strange (the Visage),
Rusty Egan (the Rich Kids) and
fashion icon Isabella Blow (just to mention a few names) used to meet up at the club at the beginning of the 80s, giving birth to the New Romantic scene.
By wearing extreme make-ups (most of the times whitened faces), big hair and wigs, hats and big shoulders they were able to make their image recognizable and create a new trend: the New Romantics.
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