that 1985 paint splatter/Keith Haring squiggle-art/polka dot/loud color street style

all 80s UK boys' bedroom wallpaper was like a diluted trickle-down version of this, in 1985-89

there's a fine line between high art/couture and everything is terrible found-footage instructional videos with some of this.

i think the line is where the bold colors of the italian designers transition into the pastel pinks and blues of the mall.

Mint chocolate chip

https://www.google.com/search?q=flipsiders&gs_l=img

I don't know if that works but it should be image search for flipsiders

I'm not claiming that it is literally the same aesthetic but that is the vibe I'm catching

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V2U93Y5qf0M/U9FsKYoBWjI/AAAAAAAAAvc/BOfiCLHz4ls/s1600/05_love_and_Pride_LP.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515tWQrIrHL.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JKD5BZC4VY8/TSulGfl60bI/AAAAAAAAPX4/BwCJ39BGIHs/s1600/debarge.jpg

can't handle wide pants though -- ugh

One thing in play with some of the examples above (the Takahashi made me think of this), maybe taking them further from paint splatter day glo into pastels and bits of geometric flair, is the Fifties revival closely associated with a more arch/ironic postmodernism, especially in furniture, industrial design, and interiors. Thinking here of Alessandro Mendini and/or Memphis Group, but in a way would also include the camp of John Waters or the B-52's. Pee Wee's Playhouse, too. All great IMO and in some cases excitingly transgressive but sometimes it's just rich people buying tacky shit because their designer said so. Anyway just seems like kind of a different track even though both definitely scream 80s.

Memphis Group furniture:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Memphis-Milano_Design_Collection.jpg

Coop Himmelb(l)au (no, really!) in this era, with Mendini overseeing:

http://bolidtbooster.com/uploads/mendini1.jpg

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/13/A70-6729

Esprit: never forget.

http://gravelandgold.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Esprit-kids.jpg

I was thinking of Pee Wee's Playhouse too (iirc his kitchen Big Adventure is along these lines too?). Such a fun and interesting backdrop to take in as a kid while watching. Still reads as FRESH and MODERN to me after all this time, even while simultaneously retro/nostalgic.

http://img7.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/19056/190569176537b54c54a03c9f5ef34eb6028df323.jpg

"Southland Tales" belongs in this thread, I think.

(And now that I've made this claim I can't find a single image to support it. Nevermind.)

there's a fine line between high art/couture and everything is terrible found-footage instructional videos with some of this.

― mitt fleekwood (get bent), Tuesday, January 20, 2015 2:46 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

true

I have a book on 80s fashion which includes this great Stephen Sprouse picture from 1984, but unfortunately I can't find it online in a proper size. It looks better in the book:

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/87/0b/1d/870b1d2fdaf63668817c74098688d248.jpg

https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10690184_10152347840762688_5124805141478931697_n.jpg?oh=c69ba2f60511c636ddf8b305654676dc&oe=552600C0

ha ha

I was thinking of Pee Wee's Playhouse too (iirc his kitchen Big Adventure is along these lines too?). Such a fun and interesting backdrop to take in as a kid while watching. Still reads as FRESH and MODERN to me after all this time, even while simultaneously retro/nostalgic.

never seen Pee-Wee's Playhouse but the sets were designed by Gary Panter

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IDNAZMKvL._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1366990953l/635842.jpg

http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/images/e/e0/Studio_Tan.jpg

http://www.reglarwiglar.com/comicartists/comicjpgs/Panter/panterasshole.jpg

http://michelfiffe.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/RCHP2.jpg

http://www.spd.org/images/blog/gp.jpg

So my question is what is the NAME for this style? Very often I've wanted to describe something by saying, well, that it looked exactly like that Malibu Musk packaging or the frame around Elton John's "Jump Up!" sleeve. Pastel colors, unmoored geometric figures, squiggles. How to specify this in a few words?

loving this thread more that I can say. wish I still owned some clothes from this era, brands like Genarra & Williwear. 1984/85 was when I saw the light and started wearing colorful duds instead of regulation east village hipster all-black.

maybe relevant:

http://zone7style.blogspot.com/

https://printarchive.wordpress.com/

like i feel there might be an overlap of different aesthetics; some of the prints on the print archive site seem to be too rococo for this vibe.

http://www.vinyl-minded.com/shop/images/8/885675.jpg

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/dd/03/02f3228348a0c00e0dd2e010.L.jpg

This shirt:

http://s.newsweek.com/sites/www.newsweek.com/files/styles/headline/public/2014/08/12/0812robinwilliamsnw.jpg?itok=sy47-DWe

how did I miss this thread

when I was 12 I came *this* close to owning a pair of blue and white vertical stripe (wide stripes) painter's overalls, complete with suspender straps -- baggy fit with rolled cuffs

mum nixed them because they had a tiny hole in them but I didn't caaaaaaaaaaaaaare I wanted them so much

I still dream about them. I had a fluoro yellow tshirt and crazy pink socks that would have looked SO rad with them, *sigh*

This is pretty rad. 70 minutes of Haring's 1983 New Year's Eve party. I'm not sure if this is his studio. The downstairs space is completely squiggled-up and looks awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJiiW89It_U

I recommend checking out the rest of this channel also. It's delightful.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/Bob_Dylan_-_Empire_Burlesque.jpg

I've been watching Pee Wee's Playhouse a lot in the past couple of days because my (almost) 2 year old is mesmerized by it and my wife was out of town for a couple of days and a lot of it fits in here but other aspects don't that much, there's definitely a retro 1950s interpretation to a lot of it.

Also the Mondrian mention above made me think of this which I had completely forgotten about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n_sG2WNGnA

This thread is great, I can't believe I've only just found it. I was born in 1981 so I've got a lot of half-buried memories of this stuff and I'm sure I had at least one pair of bermuda shorts with this sort of design on them. That Memphis Group furniture picture though... Wow!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAWASsbSwWk

http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/ikea-collections/spridd/index.html

I like how BTTF2 anticipated ironic eighties revivalism, even if it got everything other prediction wrong.

http://www.gqmagazine.fr/uploads/images/201543/66/retour_vers_le_futur_ii___mythe_ou_r__alit_____1484.png

Seems like a lot of this design aesthetic carried on into the early 90s.

http://cdn3.artofthetitle.com/assets/sm/upload/pq/ry/60/2h/sbtb_c.jpg
https://assets.vg247.com/current//2015/02/toejam-and-earl.jpg

http://www.liketotally80s.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/feathered-bangs-loreal.jpg

One whiff of the smell of this hairspray and I'm in 1986 in an instant.

That Ikea ad Wes Brodicus posted is pretty on-point, with the only goof being the handling of the overlaid graphics (the floating exclamation points, etc.) which are far too flat and stable, like something made in Illustrator. The old-school form of those, I think, would be in wobbley hand-drawn animation, jittering from frame to frame.

Pardon me while I go buy some frusen gladje

http://acmestudio.com/acme_legacy/