1. Mrs. Leslie Renteria 4th period
Fashion
Mrs. Leslie Renteria
4th period

2. The Year Of1990 & its events
Some events that happened in the years of are:
The mayor of Washington D.C is caught with drugs and has to do a 6 month prison time.
African honey bee’s enter the united states.
Earthquake destroys japan.
Osama Bin Laden moves to Afghanistan.
President was George H. W. Bush.
The Whole world agrees to stop dumping waste into the waters!
The world agrees to band all ivory trades.

3. Celebrities that influenced fashion.
Three celebrities that influence fashion are:
Will smith (Fresh Price Of Bel Air)
Jennifer Aniston (Friends)
Elizabeth Taylor (Father Of The Bride)

4. Hairstyles of 1990’s
Women’s hair style was for the most part short and curly.
Men’s hairstyles were short and rugged, then long in the back called the “Mullet” and occasionally had short beards.

5. Men’s fashion
Men’s fashion tended to have lose pants, jean type clothing, colorful items on their clothes, their shoes were mostly Nike. The “Cool” Men They would carry around big boom boxes and blast their music for everyone to hear it.
During this period it became increasingly popular for men to leave their shirt untucked. From a trend started by Bill Gates from Microsoft, suits fell out of favor as men started to dress smart-casual and business casual. Other things to become popular at this time where Reebok and , bootcut jeans and hoodies.

6. Women’s fashion
Women’s; Fashion tended to have high waist jeans, colorful clothing, dress up jackets, sneakers, and high socks, or long dresses. Flared trousers, miniskirts and crop tops revealing the belly button. There were also Capri pants, low-waist jeans and thong underwear.

7. Inventions that occurred during the decade of 1990 (:
World Wide Web Was Invented.
V-Chip (for TV channels to only pick up certain ratings of the TV programs)
The DVD was invented. Yaayy No More Vcr’s!

8. Famous designer of 1990s Arthur Galan, Walter Van Beirendonch,
Dries Van Noten,
Dirk Bikkembergs,
Marina Yee,
Dirk Van Saene,
Ann Demeulemeester.

9. How do world events affect fashion?
The world and the events that happened in those few ten years had many impacts on fashion.
Consumerism is a significant cultural factor of globalisation induced by the fashion media.
Western culture believes in acquiring material wealth, in enjoying a better lifestyle of consumption, possession and better services that contribute to sustainable economic development.
These fashion and cultural value of consumerism is introduced to the South by means of advertisements.
The fashion media post the globalisation era creates these needs in people by emphasizing novelty and fashion through advertisements.
When the 1990’s arrived, the next generation wanted to distance it’s self from the eighties. Everything about the eighties, its fashion and trends were to be avoided, mocked or ridiculed. In fashion circles you would never be caught wearing anything related to the 80’s.