1970s | The Dedicated Follower of Fashion

dressed like a disco inferno

“It’s night, the phone rings. It’s some friends, they’re going out. Where to? A disco, of course.”...

dressing the part ~ rock ‘n’ roll high school

For the past two days, images from the Met gala’s red carpet have been filtering through our Instagram and Facebook feeds...

t.rex ‘jeepster’ ~ isn’t it iconic?

Marc Bolan, “Jeepster” “Jeepster” was the second single off of T.Rex’s 1971 breakthough album, Electric Warrior....

vintage editorial ~ the soft prom look is here

From the March 1977 issue of Seventeen magazine...

vintage decor ~ groom a room with color

From the March 1970 issue of Seventeen magazine “Fancy your room with this fabulous furniture. It’s aglow with larky, living color!”...

seafarer brings back the 70′s with flare

Let’s face it, skinny jeans are stubborn. They just don’t seem to be going anywhere, no matter how tightly we close our eyes and beg the universe to banish them. But while we grudgingly accept this, we also wish that there were more options available,...

hunkydory ~ spring ’13

In the fashion industry, the mythical 1970′s southern California rock scene has been a source of artistic inspiration for quite some time now....

vintage editorial ~ the great american shirt life with jane birkin

From the March 15, 1971 issue of Vogue “Jane’s the kind of girl who likes to find an adventure waiting each morning when she wakes up.”...

beck preens for saint laurent paris

Hedi Slimane’s close associations with rock gods and their heirs apparent run all the way back to the designer’s glory days at Dior Homme....

counting down with keisuke serizawa

Keisuke Serizawa (1895–1984) was a multidisciplinary artist and textile designer world-renowned for his interpretation of the Japanese folk art of mingei (“art of the people”)....

vintage decor ~ op-art-ment

From the February 15th, 1970 issue of Vogue “A contemporary shell masking seventeenth-century bones — the paris apartment of M. and Mme. François Catroux.”...

“in vogue” in review

It’s been one busy season for the Vogue magazine family. First there was the fantastic documentary, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, followed by the biography, Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland. Then, we were also treated to Grace: A Memoir, penned by Vogue creative director, Grace Coddington. And now, HBO has
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