Mod 60s

Twiggy

They’d roam around the hippest places in London and Brighton, showing off their new designer clothes or riding their Italian scooters. It’s the mods, ladies and gentlemen! A true staple of 60s fashion, the mod style has never completely disappeared and, while it stayed underground throughout some decades, it has seen more than one revival. Discover its origins and learn to dress like them with our guide to mod fashion! Credit: Shaping a Generation History of Mod Fashion Credit: GQ This…

Peggy Moffitt modeling Rudi Gernreich design, 1971, Photo William Claxton

From the Swinging Sixties of Carnaby Street to the mods, via the first groupies and space age fashion, the decade offered so much sartorial inspiration.

From Seventeen, February 1967

Twiggy is wearing Pierre Cardin

Mod is a subculture that began in London in 1958 and spread throughout Great Britain and elsewhere, eventually influencing fashions and trends in other countries, and continues today on a smaller scale. Focused on music and fashion, the subculture has its roots in a small group of stylish London-based young men in the late 1950s who were termed modernists because they listened to modern jazz. Elements of the mod subculture include fashion (often tailor-made suits); music (including soul…

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