As Seen In Blitz: Fashioning 80S Style

Blitz Provided A Beautiful Flamboyance In The 80S, When You And I Met Up It Was An Eye-Opening Moment For Me. You Showed Me A Life That Was Different To How I Had Perceived It. Nick KnightBlitz Completely Changed The Perception Of Beauty. There Were No Chocolate Box Girls In Blitz, Just Lovely Edgy Young Things Who Depicted The Age And A Different Mood In How People Viewed Beauty. Carole White, Co-Founder Of Premier Model ManagementLike The Lightning In Its Name, It Struck Us In 1980 And Kept Us Spellbound The Whole Decade. Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die, That Is Blitz For Me. Every Month We Would Run To The News Stand To Be Blitzed With Irreverent, Glamorous, Chic And Iconic Images. Blitz Was Iain R. WebbS Brainchild That Corresponded Perfectly To The Era, It Was One Of Its Best Expressions. He Used Emblematic Faces That Were So Inspiring And That I Used For My Shows, Like Martine Houghton, Who Later Became A Photographer. Blitz, We Miss You But We Are Ready For Your Attack Again! Jean Paul Gaultierin London At The Start Of The 1980S, Three New Style Magazines Emerged To Define An Era. It Was A Time Of Change After Punk, Before The Digital Age And At The Dawn Of A Hedonistic Club Scene That Saw The Birth Of The New Romantics. As Blitz MagazineS Fashion Editor From 1982-87, Iain R. Webb Was At The Centre Of This World. His Images Manipulated Fashion To Explore Ideas Of Transformation, Beauty, Glamour And Sex. The MagazineS Arresting, Subversive Fashion Pages And Its Profiles Of Disparate Designers And Creative Types, Let The Imagination Run Free. Lavishly Presented Here Are Over 100 Blitz Fashion Stories, With Unseen Archive Content, Original Images And Tear-Sheets. Characters And Contributors Include: Leigh Bowery, Amanda Cazalet, Boy George, Princess Julia, Nick Knight, David Lachapelle, Paul Morley And Anna Piaggi. Featured Designers Include: Body Map, Judy Blame, Dean Bright, Come Des Garcons, Jasper Conran, John Galliano And More.