Now I will be honest here, is the film good? Not really. It failed in the box office upon its release in 1986, but has grown to become a cult classic over the past 3 decades. It most loved aspect is the aesthetic, it’s combination of 80s cool, 40s noir and an underlying goth attitude. For what it lacks in depth, it makes up the visuals.

Take the Cantina Band from Star Wars, combine it with KISS, and you’ll find Halyx.

It’s the perfect combination of teen drama, horror/sci fi and iconic 80s fashion. It capitalised the Millennial/Gen Z nostalgic fascination with the 80s aesthetic and did it incredibly well. But, was the fashion really accurate to 1980s mid-America? Let’s find out.

The contrast between appropriating black designers and black culture while simultaneously creating an environment which makes it impossible for black individuals to find traditional success is a significant yet underlying issue in the fashion industry.

Freddie Mercury was constantly reinventing himself. He is the symbol for constant reinvention. He was a free spirit, wanting to capture the gaze of others and look good while doing it.

Sorayama’s work explores the ‘limitations of desire’, which he explores through erotic and hyperreal fembot sculptures and paintings. He combines pop culture references with 1950 playboy covers, sci-fi and visions or AI and robotics. It’s sort of like the exploration of sex in the digital age.

Now, I am admitting that what is happening in the fashion industry can’t be compared to the severe impact that COVID-19 is having on those directly affected. But there is something really despicable happening at the moment, especially for fashion manufacturing.

Fashion plays the same role in video games; without meeting a character in-game, we can already begin to understand them by looking at what they’re wearing. And, you can also begin to understand the world around the character and the society they live in.

The same arched/defined brows, the same neutral sharp cat-eye, the same contoured full-coverage skin and the same nude lip. Say hello to the ‘Instagram Face’.

When discussing the concept of an animated figure, Morton came up with “the most boring thing that [he] could think of to do, which would go against the grain for the MTV generation… was a talking a head: a middle-class white male in a suit, talking to them in a really boring way about music videos.” And the seed for Max Headroom was truly planted.

Across all her fashion ‘phases’, Madonna has always presented the idea of controversy, femininity, sexuality and dominant identity through fashion.

Both in her fashion/aesthetic and her music, Eilish is the antithesis of femininity in pop music. She plays with traditional femininity and modern gender fluidity.

Lil Nas X is making history, especially being a black queer artist in the current music industry and breaking so many records. It takes a lot of confidence to wear the looks that he wears

Representation matters. Seeing a plus-size woman of colour completely killing on and off the stage has so much more of an impact than we all think. I can’t wait to see what she does and what she wears next.

Every outfit wears oozes with editorial edge, an artistic and fashion-history-aware viewpoint that makes his looks so different from other musicians his age.

Chelsea Hickman isn’t your average fashion entrepreneur. She’s an emerging Melbourne-based designer, photographer and multidisciplinary visual artist originally from Tasmania.

Well, here we are. It's officially one year since I launched PERSPEX. 365 days, 12 months, 46 articles and 12 wrap up videos.

Founded in 1977 by American businessman Roy Raymond. In my opinion, VS was doomed from the start as Raymond; “wanted to create a women’s underwear shop that was targeted at men”. Do I need to say anymore than that?

Now fashion brands that are using Tik Tok as a platform to advertise their products and gain awareness isn’t the only way Tik Tok is greatly affecting the fashion industry. 

In terms of progression, fashion has always moved towards form-fitting garments and absence of fabric to show skin, which is typically why all futuristic works of art lean towards liberation of the body through fashion.