Bianca Jagger - a timeless style icon
Bianca Jagger, with a fashion sense as iconic as her name, stands out as a symbol of the 70s' glitz and glamour. Known for her marriage to Mick Jagger and...
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The Story of PAOLO GUCCI
The Designer They Tried to Erase Paolo Gucci helped build one of the most recognisable brands in the world. History gave him a footnote. When Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported...
Kenneth Jay Lane Jewellery: A Collector's Guide to KJL Marks and Dating | Jagged Metal
Kenneth Jay Lane launched his first jewellery line in 1963 and spent the next five decades making costume jewellery that didn't apologise for being costume jewellery. A guide to the...
Veruschka: The Model Who Rejected Fashion | Jagged Metal
Veruschka von Lehndorff — German countess, 1960s icon, body painting pioneer. The anti-model who defined an era and walked away from it on her own terms.
Dynasty Jewellery: The Bold Glamour of 1980s Power Dressing | Jagged Metal
Nolan Miller, Les Bernard, Kenneth Jay Lane — the designers behind Dynasty's iconic jewellery, and why the pieces from the show's golden era remain worth collecting.
Donyale Luna: The First Black Model on the Cover of Vogue | Jagged Metal
Donyale Luna — Detroit-born, London-made. The first Black model on the cover of Vogue in 1966, and one of fashion's most overlooked icons.
Coco Chanel - Celebrating a Costume Jewellery Legend
Vintage Chanel Jewellery Coco Chanel has long been considered a fashion legend. Little black dresses, signature suits, collarless cardigans, layered with pearls; brooches and cuffs along with the iconic quilted handbag...
Fashion Inspo
YSL Africa 1967: The Collection That Changed Haute Couture's Frame of Reference | Jagged Metal
Yves Saint Laurent didn't ease ideas into fashion. He staged them. By the time he presented the Autumn/Winter 1967 collection — what's now referred to as the Africa collection —...
Versace AW91: The Night Fashion Met Pop Culture | Jagged Metal
By the early 90s, fashion had the faces — Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford — but Versace was the one who turned them into a moment. The...
Thierry Mugler Haute Couture 1995: The Show That Rewrote the Rules | Jagged Metal
Remembering a fashion legend - a tribute to the one and only Thierry Mugler. The Fall/Winter 1995 Mugler couture show ran for an hour at the Cirque d'Hiver. Pat...
90s CHANEL - FALL 1991 - THE 'HIP HOP' COLLECTION
Iconic Vintage Chanel Jewellery Moments In the early 90s, Karl Lagerfeld was on a mission to transform the brand's somewhat stuffy image. His keen eye for the cultural zeitgeist and deep respect for Gabrielle’s precious...
Music Inspo
70s Music: Funk, Soul and Disco and What They Actually Built | Jagged Metal
The 70s is the decade that gets credited with everything and understood least. Disco gets remembered as camp and then killed. Funk gets flattened into a mood. The actual story...
90s Music: The Decade That Split Everything Apart | Jagged Metal
The 90s didn't produce something for everyone. It split everything apart. Scenes stopped blending and started forming their own worlds — and most of them didn't cross over. That's...
80s Music: What the Decade Actually Built | Jagged Metal
The 80s get remembered as one thing — synthesisers, shoulder pads, big hair — when they were actually several things happening simultaneously, most of them in disagreement with each other.
1970s New York: Studio 54, The Loft and Paradise Garage | Jagged Metal
1970s New York: The Disco Era Disco is usually understood as a genre. It was really a system — about who controls the room, who gets through the door, and...
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