Roaring 1920s Vinatge Fashion

The 1920s defined social, cultural rebellion and modern fashion like beads, fringe and the flapper revolution. This decade loved bling and sparkle mainly in head-wear. Infamous beaded headbands, skullcaps and feather hair clips dressing up their short hairdos. This era marked the beginning of freedom for women. They gained the right to vote as well as playing active roles in sports, social life and in the workplace. Therefore women adopted new fashions harmonizing with their changing roles in society. This gave them freedom of movement than the tight-laced Victorian and Edwardian garments they had previously worn. Same with the haircuts in which they replaced their long Victorian locks with shorter hairstyles.

The trend of headbands started when King Tut’s tomb was discovered in 1924. Thus every woman wanted to look like an Egyptian queen. Head wraps, crowns, tiaras, full headdresses, and small hair clips are produced from beautiful precious stones, feathers and pearls. 

Fashion and nature artists

Jessica Durrant- freelance illustrator her consists of fashion, beauty and lifestyle themes. Her inspiration comes from her travels, music, architecture, film, vintage illustration and Scandinavian design.

 

Niki Pilkington- Welsh illustrator creates fashion trend portraits. She combines quotes and idioms in her pieces telling a multi-layered story. The meanings of the illustrations either shown in a clear or hidden view they take you on a fairytale journey.

Artist Inspiration

Sigmar Polke – German painter and photographer. Polke experimented with a wide variety of materials/ subject matters. He focused on photography in the 1970s moving back to paint in the 1980s in which he created abstract works through chemical reactions of paint and other substances. 

 

Connie lim- Fashion illustrator and designer. Focuses on traditional hand drawing like couture and paintings using a combination of pencils, pens, watercolour and gouaches.  I’m especially fascinated with Lim’s life drawings, the layering and the use of colour.

 

Robert Rauschberg- painter and graphic artist whose well known for his combines of the 1950s. This consisted of non-traditional materials and objects engaged in innovative mixtures. He also workied with photography, print and paper making.