David Holler and Stevie Stewart, the duo behind the 80s label body map“Weekly” went to Taboo. Their sporty clothes, made of Lycra and sweatshirt fabric, were “all about the silhouette and were made to suit every body type,” Stewart told the BBC. Her debut catwalk show in 1984 featured models “big, old, children…diversity was key.”
“People were wearing designer clothes, like Vivienne Westwood, for example, from charity buys or from Topshop. It was homemade and mixed,” says Holler, who now teaches printmaking. But Stewart still makes clothes and works as a stylist. Kylie Minogue etc. During BodyMap’s existence, the brand, like all brands, wanted to push the boundaries of fashion. Sociopolitical background – miners strikeenvironmental issues, protests, 1960s psychedelics: “Everything became part of the work.”
The location and time of this exploration 80s: British photography, It will be held at Tate Britain in London from November. Ingrid Pollard, Franklin Rogers and Wolfgang Tillmans are just three photographers who “used the camera to respond to social and political upheavals” in Britain in the 1980s, including the AIDS pandemic. Article 28 – A 1988 law that banned the so-called “promotion” of homosexuality in British schools and libraries.
Looking back on the 1980s, Green says: “There’s definitely a connection between that queer culture and gender mixing and gender exploration that was happening then and is happening again now.”
