Swinging Sixties
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The Swinging Sixties was a youth-driven cultural revolution that took place in the United Kingdom during the mid-to-late 1960s, emphasising modernity and fun-loving hedonism, with Swinging London deno
A scene in Carnaby Street, in London's West End, c. 1966
Carnaby Street, c. 1968, which was the center of the Swinging fashion scene
The Mini became an icon of 1960s popular culture, and featured in the 1969 British caper film The Italian Job.
Mod (subculture)
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Mod, from the word modernist, is a subculture that began in the late 1950s London and spread throughout Great Britain, eventually influencing fashions and trends in other countries. It continues today
Swinging Sixties
…and was symbolised by the city's "pop and fashion exports", such as the Beatles, as the multimedia leaders of the British Invasion of musical acts; the mod and psychedelic subcultures; Mary Quant's miniskirt designs; popular fashion models such as Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton; the iconic status of popular…
Two mid-1960s mods on a customised Lambretta scooter
Quadrophenia exhibit at the Cotswold Motor Museum in Bourton-on-the-Water in 2007
Small Faces in 1965