Glam rock inspired 80's fashion

Glam rock inspired 80's fashion

It is no secret that I am a huge fan of 80’s rock bands!  So, there is no surprise that last night’s concert, featuring 80’s superstars Bret Michaels (former lead singer in the glam-metal band Poison), Stryper & Tesla at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum, has left me with a mild sense of melancholia over the 80’s rock era and glam fashion.

Glam style of the 80’s was bodacious.  As an era marked by excess, it is well remembered by its striking colors and prints, big accessories, eccentric hairstyles, bold make up, bleached jeans, leggings, leather and dyes.  As many of the icons that survived this period, 80’s fashion has reinvented into a more sophisticated, refined trend that incorporates the boldness of the 80’s with contemporary fashion.  Here are a few of my inspirations: women of 80’s glam rock...

Madonna - photos courtesy of http://www.madonna.com

Olivia Newton-John - photo courtesy of http://www.olivia-newtonjohn.com

Stevie Nicks – photo courtesy of AOR Disco: http://aordisco.blogspot.com/2012/04/wild-heart-live-rolling-stone-photo.html

Cyndi Lauper - photos courtesy of http://cyndilauper.com

Joan Jett - photos courtesy of http://greatesthits.joanjett.com

 Pat Benatar - photos courtesy of http://www.starpulse.com/

Tina Turner - photos courtesy of Google

Cher - photos courtesy of Google

Annie Lennox - photos courtesy of Google

  

Sinead O’Connor - photos courtesy of the Rolling Stone - http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/women-who-rock-greatest-breakthrough-moments-20120622/aa987-sinead-oconnor-shaves-her-head-19691231

  

The Bangles - photo courtesy of http://www.thebangles.com/photos.html

Tiffany - photos courtesy of Google

Debbie Gibson - photos courtesy of Google

JapiCHIC will be rocking to the tunes of the 80's for the rest of the week!