Fashion Relics: Trends Both Awesome And Atrocious From Yesteryear

Posted: 08/10/12 | Updated: 08/10/12

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Fashion is notoriously cyclical with trends popping up again and again - with that in mind, Fashion Priest has prepared a cheat sheet of trends to revisit, icons to resurrect, and wardrobe crimes to consign to the annals of style history!

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80’s Supermodels
Remember a time when superhuman fembots were released into the general public circa 1980? These were the glory days of catwalk, when models looked more like outstandingly beautiful women rather than malnourished aliens. Ah, those were the days…
Joan Jett
I hate myself for lovin’ you Jetty! After stepping off the Runaway stage, this rock Goddess brought punk chic to every angsty teenage girl from Camden to Compton. Matching 80’s power pads with studded belts Jett also somehow pulled off the ultimate fashion oxymoron = a sexy mullet.
Johnny & Winona
Praise be! One of the 90’s chicest couples. Before the kleptomania and the Burton years, these two were quirky style royalty. Baron Von Depp here is attempting as always to hide his handsome, while Winona stays on the chic side of an un-dead complexion. Them were the days.
Christy and Naomi
These two would frolic around world party scenes making all that watched weep at how old, frumpy, short haggard or all of the above they made everyone feel. What could make this possibly worse? The girls are fabulous dressers! Both wearing coordinated gold glam outfits, here they are laughing at how awful it must be to be one of the plebs.
Barbara Streisand
L'Chayim! Giving shikses everywhere a run for their money, Babs brought Jew glam to the masses. Checking over this amaze Prussian Snow Queen ensemble, one can see why. Gagging over this plush white fur trip coat with matching detailed hat, and the boots! Oy, I’m all verklempt just looking at it.
Anna Piaggi
Let take a moment to honor la Regina della moda, Anna Piaggi. Having written the holiest of fashion scriptures for Vogue, the lady had at least 2,865 dresses and 265 pairs of shoes in her Godly closet. From this we can also see that Piaggi CLEARLY should have designed Team GB’s uniforms.
Fashion Cafe
The most stunning and slimmest women on the planet decide they are experts in kitschy merch and BURGERS AND FRIES… seeing holes in this business model already? Well that didn’t stop the 80’s dream team for falling into this fast food debacle. Stick to the day job girls.
Axl Rose
Jesus H. Christ. No, this is not the seventh member of the Village People. Before the poker straight locks, bandana and denim underwear, there was this. Old gingy skinned a leopard, stole Cameo’s codpiece and an Indian ladies necklace. The results being fashphemy beyond redemption. Axl, Some sins cannot be forgiven.