{"id":15184,"date":"2013-07-10T07:40:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T06:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=15184"},"modified":"2013-07-10T07:40:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T06:40:34","slug":"the-guardian-london-fashion-in-the-80s-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-guardian-london-fashion-in-the-80s-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian: London Fashion In The 80s Remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/fashion\/2013\/jul\/09\/club-catwalk-london-fashion-80s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/fashion\/2013\/jul\/09\/club-catwalk-london-fashion-80s\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15185 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"guardian13c\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/guardian13c.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"35\" \/><\/a>A new show at the V&amp;A celebrates the creativity of the 80s clubbing and fashion scenes in London. We find out what inspired the decade&#8217;s cool kids. We asked those who were there about dressing up, making images and dancing till dawn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Toyah Willcox on the pop wardrobe: <\/strong>&#8220;Melissa Caplan made my costumes from the 70s to the mid-80s. I was very influenced by futurism and reading a lot of Marge Piercy. Look and image were very important \u2013 there was already incredible pressure to look feminine and sexy but I wanted to look individual and strong. I didn&#8217;t have any role models except Little Nell from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I remember stepping out on to the stage in 1981 at Hammersmith Odeon and seeing row after row of people looking identical. Every image I created was like setting a fire off in someone&#8217;s mind.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Toyah Willcox is a singer and actor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/fashion\/2013\/jul\/09\/club-catwalk-london-fashion-80s\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Guardian<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new show at the V&amp;A celebrates the creativity of the 80s clubbing and fashion scenes in London. We find out what inspired the decade&#8217;s cool kids. We asked those who were there about dressing up, making images and dancing till dawn. Toyah Willcox on the pop wardrobe: &#8220;Melissa Caplan made my costumes from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[796,489,745],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15184"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15243,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15184\/revisions\/15243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}