THE GREAT EPIDEMIC OF THE
1980S (Pt 2)
(Up) Revlon has commissoned the photographer Richard Avedon to capture the spirit of modern beauty. As he continues his search for 'unforgettable' women, a new advertising campaign opens that month (July 1987). Here we give you one of the series: Left to right: Swedish model Kersti Bowser, Americans Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford, and Paulina Porizkova from Czechoslovakia, wearing Revlon's custom Eyes eye shadow collection. |
Fresh Faces
Models in the 80s were all about healthy measurements and fresh attitude, unlike models today projecting a very unhealthy hip-less postures. Back in the days hips were very well-seen, Models like Christie Brinkley with notable hips projected the picture very well. Modeling was the profusion to many girls to become successful actresses, Cameron Diaz (<left on seventeen) who started at 16 in 1989 as a model before her first movie The Mask in 1994. Uma Thurman, (<left on Rolling Stone May1989) also started as a model. In 1985 she graced the cover of Vogue at the age of 15 and got her start as an actress in 1988 with her first movie Johnny be good. Not to forget Hilary Swank starting modeling at 15 and being already an actress, and took her 7 more years to land an Oscar in Boys don’t cry. What about the one and only Brooke Shields? Who she was the youngest girl to appear on the cover of magazines at the age of 14 with movies still on her hands like Endless love and The blue Lagoon. Shields’ CK bottoms-up commercials have made Calvin Klein the best –known name in the U.S. fashion.
F. Talk!
Turning to a fashion frilly era, many had people presented the look, yet not so much did, and what was a fashion cult was the exertion of Madonna who presented the 80's style, her care-free style and the right out of a flee market look drove attention to her fashion sense-in-style along with her upbeat music and later on her creation to the cone-shaped bras and wearing lingerie and under wears as out wears in her videos, opening a forbidden door on which it presented the picture of embracing women hood and using sex as a weapon, and the way she used her videos to make statement on many subjects like racism and religion in her (like a prayer video in 1989) with kissing a black man, and singing in front a burning cross, which made it more craze about her existence, she made a big impact on the 80's style along side with Brooke Shields’ face which was titled by TIME magazine to be representing the 80's look with her famous bushed brows, Brooke shields was one of the only models who had spared the tweezers, her mother had forbidden it, causing her daughter to project the 80s look. Her Amazonian beauty and her thick eye brows forced women to drop tweezers, and that was the time were women grew thicker brows.
They Sing Too!!!
The name of Bruce rose in the mid 1980s’, when he got casted in the TV series Moonlighting (85-89), and having his very first movie with Kim basinger "Blind Date" in 1987 and shortly after that landing the film series "Die Hard" in 1988. In 1987, Bruce gave his passion for blues music a shot, releasing his first album the return of Bruno, that had the big hit "Respect your self" |
He was notable for his very first movie "48Hrs", even a bigger notice at his hit movie "Beverly Hills Cop". Other than being an actor and a comedian, Eddie Murphy is also a musician and had a singing career in the mid 80’s launching his first album How could it be in 1985, with the hit single "Party all the time" which got him recognition in the field. |