Disco Fashion

Mood Rings The idea behind a mood ring was simple: You wore it on your finger and the colour of the stone…
Sharpies The Sharpie movement was a short-lived youth subculture that seemed to explode out of nowhere, in Melbourne, Australia, in late…
Filofax Although synonymous with all those 1980s cliches of power-dressing, double-breasted suits and big hair, the Filofax has actually been around…
Twiggy Twiggy's success story began in 1965 when Nigel Davies – a jack-of-all-trades who had worked as a bookie's office boy,…
Peggy Moffitt The top American model of the 1960s, Peggy Moffitt was a startling innovator who didn't just wear fashions, she inspired…
Avon Ladies "Ding Dong, Avon Calling" The most successful door-to-door makeup enterprise in history, Avon has been bringing front door service to…
Men of the Cloth - The low-down on four of London's key… John Simons Little did he know it, but in 1965 the clothes stylist John Simons was about to start the skinhead movement…
Swatch Watch Swiss watch company SSIH scored a hit in 1983 with its low-priced Swatch range of brightly coloured watches. Ernst Thomke…