Where Music Meets Fashion

Although I still have two years and eleven months to make a firm decision on what to do next, I'm thrilled to learn that my list of potential jobs after graduating has just doubled after discovering the growing fad of cross-over magazines.

Music has always inspired fashion and vice-versa, we can see mainstream music and popular fashion moving steadily along with each other just by looking back at past decades.

The '60s - Psychedelic, Pop, Motown, Rhythm and Blues, The Beatles.
The '70s - Progressive Rock, Disco, Punk, New Wave, The Sex Pistols and Led Zeppelin.
The '80s - New Romantics, Power Pop, Heavy Metal, Duran Duran, The Smiths and The Cure.
The '90s - Brit Pop, Hip-Hop, Rap, Nu-Metal, Rave and Dance.

With each big genre movement or exceptionally popular band there has been a unique way of dressing. Something to make you stand out, be recognised by like-minded individuals, to help you fit in and rebel against other styles.

Until the last decade, magazines preferred to remain in their particular niche, where as now it seems most music magazines have a few pages on bands on fashionable artists and adverts for particular brands and clothing shops. On the fashion side of things, the recent explosion of indie and rock becoming mainstream has really helped push music into the fashion world. Icons such as Johnny Borell, Pete Doherty, Brandon Flowers, Kele Okereke, Serge Pizzorno and Alex Turner are regularly seen in fashion shoots and on the covers of fashion magazines.

So I will be listening out extra attentively to the fashion journalism talks, because maybe three years down the line I’ll be somewhere I didn't expect to be now.