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Early 80s new wave look

PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2020 10:53 pm
by WeLiveSoFastx83
I noticed that David Bowie (on the cover of Scary Monsters...), Hazel O'Connor (on the cover of Cover Plus) and Mick Karn (on the cover of Titles) are all donning white face paint and orange, reddish hair. What inspired this look, and did anyone else appropriate this look?

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Re: Early 80s new wave look

PostPosted: Thu Feb 27, 2020 3:02 pm
by oldwaver2
If I remember correctly it's a Marlene Dietrich thing.
She's known as a gender-bending icon.

Of course there is Annie Lennox.

At least one member of every early New Romantic band

A lesser known Ronny.
http://www.savetier.eu/what-happened-to-ronny

Klaus Nomi

Japan

Gina x Performance

Kraftwerk

Amanda Lear

Grace Jones

Early Steve Strange & Boy George

A lot of the early Goth and 70s Punk Rock bands

Early Cyndi Lauper (Blue Angels period)

Angie Bowie

Roxy Music/Eno

Madonna

Re: Early 80s new wave look

PostPosted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 6:28 am
by Passing_Stranger
Clearly a mark of an outsider. There's a big tradition of seeing red-head people as an outkasts, so in post-punk there's a clear wish to align themselves with outkasts. Besides it's a striking, somewhat alien look - what better for a scene built on striking looks :D

Re: Early 80s new wave look

PostPosted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 5:54 pm
by arcana07
When Duran Duran were starting out Nick Rhodes didn't so much have red hair as orange hair, in a huge, mushroom cloud hairdo.