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Jonathan Walford

1950s American Fashion

  • Arielba Pichardohar citeretsidste år
    THE 1950s BELONGED TO AMERICA. The country led in postwar economic recovery and industrial production; refrigerators, televisions, and automobiles were churned out in huge quantities for the vast numbers of new families relocating to the sprawling suburbs. Despite a swing toward social and political conservatism in the 1950s, American culture was at the forefront of modern art—in painting, sculpture, theater, and literature, as well as contemporary music in the form of jazz and rock ’n’ roll. In the field of design, American architects, furniture designers, and textile artists were internationally influential. And now even American fashion designers were being recognized as
  • Arielba Pichardohar citeretsidste år
    SHIRE PUBLICATIONS

    Advertisement for Anne Fogarty, Vogue magazine, May 15, 1956.
  • Vadim Bondarhar citeretfor 4 år siden
    Lurex, Pellon, Dacron, Dynel, Acrilan, Terylene, Arnel, Vicara, and Borgana.
  • Nina Kononovahar citeretfor 7 år siden
    The media made light of the movement in 1957 by coining the term “​​​​​​​Beatnik,”​​​​​​​ adding the Russian suffix from Sputnik to Beat. Sprouting from a group of New York writers in the late 1940s, the Beat generation swelled into an international movement that embraced atonal jazz, black coffee, free love, existentialism, scruffy beards, dark glasses, berets, and sandals.
  • b0488342159har citeretfor 8 år siden
    The film industry also needed designers who could anticipate where fashion was headed in order to avoid outmoded looks in films when they were released a year after production.
  • b0488342159har citeretfor 8 år siden
    designers, equating the two as equally important
  • b0488342159har citeretfor 8 år siden
    The first awards, in 1938, were given to American and European designers, equating the two as equally important for the American market
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