Swinging Sixties
As Swinging Sixties is generally described as both a cultural as political and fashionable trend or the zeitgeist of society from the mid- 1960 's.
Starting with political conflicts such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the already smoldering Vietnam War , a new way of seeing and thinking prevailed in society, which was expressed in the political thinking of the peace movement , in culture , fashion and a completely new way of thinking about freedom. Meanwhile, there was a change in the music scene, which at the same time set new fashion trends ( Woodstock ). Most closely associated with the concept of the Swinging Sixties , however, probably the London Street Carnaby Street be, what became known in the 1960s through its myriad fashion and music shops and was considered a "trend mile" in Western Europe. Anyone who wanted to be youthquaker , “hip” or hippie or just buy drugs went “shopping” there.
The Swinging Sixties are clearly outlined in Michelangelo Antonioni's feature film Blow Up (1966), which reflects a certain apathy of the 1960s, which is in stark contrast to the shrill patterns of LSD fashion such as the paisley pattern and the mini-skirts of a Mary, which were provocative for society at the time Quant stands. The British photo model Twiggy is generally associated with the “face” of the London swinging sixties .
literature
- Rainer Metzger: Swinging London: Art & Culture in the cosmopolitan city of the 60s . dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, 2012, ISBN 978-3423347143 .
- Dominic Sandbrook: White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties: 1964-1970 BC 2 . Abacus, new edition 2007, ISBN 978-0-349-11820-8 . (English)
- Christopher Breward , David Gilbert, Jenny Lister (Eds.): Swinging Sixties . A & C Black, 2006, ISBN 1-85177-484-X . (English)
Web links
- Blow Up (the film) in the IMDb
- 1960s fashion
- To hairstyle fashion of the sixties
- SWR series: The wild sixties
Individual evidence
- ↑ 3sat article about Mary Quant as a symbol of the Swinging 60ties ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Twiggy - "greatest top model of all time". Die Welt, September 6, 2007, accessed January 23, 2009 .
