Perry Ellis
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Perry Edwin Ellis was an American fashion designer who founded his eponymous sportswear house in the mid-1970s. Ellis's influence on the fashion industry has been called "a huge turning point" because
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1970s in fashion
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Fashion in the 1970s was about individuality. In the early 1970s, Vogue proclaimed "There are no rules in the fashion game now" due to overproduction flooding the market with affordable synthetic clot
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…classics" that American women longed for at the time. He was initially known for his versions of the oversized, unconstructed, layered, natural-fiber Big Look or Soft Look that was the leading fashion trend of the mid-seventies, for which he was compared favorably to Kenzo, the 1973 originator of the look. Ellis enhanced…
In 1971 hotpants, long sideburns and bell-bottomed trousers were popular fashion trends
Diane von Fürstenberg's wrap dress, designed in the 1970s
By the early 1970s, miniskirts had reached an all-time popularity. This young English woman is wearing a fringed suede miniskirt, 1971.
African American couple, Michigan Avenue, Chicago, July 1975