What were the Eighties, really? Just Reaganistic hedonism, neo-baroque decor and postmodern landscapes, or were they also the iconoclastic and constructive creativity of the underground? Was it only the birth of the total look and luxury signatures or the construction of a system that would make fashion the driving engine of the Italian economy? Creativity and novelty are the key words for a period with such apparent contradictions that it seems to escape any precise definitions. There was the return to professionalism, to officialdom after the protests and it was expressed in the street style. At the same time the conservative revolution of Ronald Reagan’s and Margaret Thatcher’s free market was taking place, wealth and its ostentation became... [more]
