Rock&Roll and Fashion

I love the way Rock&Roll music has influenced fashion over the years, it has always fascinated me, as the ‘Boho Rocker’ vibe has been a staple dress code for me ever since I can remember.

So, let’s take a look at the fashion that shaped the decades from the 70’s to today.

70’s: Iconic and Androgynous David Bowie strutting in glitter, make up and shiny and loud exuberant outfits. And Led Zeppelin’s fashion essential of flared jeans/pants accompanied folk rock, blues, soul mixed songs that changed the musical landscape forever.

80’s: The hairstyles grew longer & higher with leather and distressed denim. A highlight along with all black attire (black jeans, black T-Shirts & black leather jacket) were trailblazers ACDC, Black Sabbath and Metallica, Guns N Roses - and heavy metal was in full-force.

90’s: In the 1990s Grunge took to the stage, which was torn jeans, tatty T-Shirts, old knit cardigans, a moody and unkept look of Nirvana, Soundgarden and Green Day who optimized it.

2000’s: The 90s fashion continued throughout the era with heavy alternative rock bands like Foo Fighters, Tool & Audioslave cementing their presence.

2020’s: A new decade and Rock&Roll is NOT dead. Proof is Lenny Kravitz with his Boho Rocker threads touring the world along with the operatic glamour of Queen and the theater & ‘Glam Rock’ of Alice Cooper sporting black leather and loud pin striped suits.

Whichever way you look at it, Rock&Roll continues to influence who we are, what we wear and why we wear it.