Mod subculture fashion

From New York to Paris, what the runways looked like before social media.

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…

Ask five different people what a mod is and you'll probably get five different answers, covering maybe five different decades. So here, basically, is what you need to know: "Modernists" started getting their kicks...

Swinging London is a catch-all term applied to the fashion and cultural scene that flourished in London in the 1960s. It was a youth-oriente...

The Who at their mod best

And her later days, when she switched over to capturing the world of hip-hop.

Nico was born as Krista Päffgen in 1938 in Cologne, Germany and past away in 1988 on Spanish island of Ibiza. Most of her life is a great mystery. Some say Nico was just famous for being Nico, but …

Mod is a subculture that began in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and spread, in varying degrees, to other countries and continues today on a smaller scale. Focused on music and fashion, the subculture has its roots in a small group of London-based stylish young men in the late 1950s who were termed modernists because they listened to modern jazz, although the subculture expanded to include women. Here is a collection of black and white photos showing mods on streets in the 1960s.

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