1970s new york fashion

NYC, 1970's, Photo by: Sepp Werkmeister.

In 1969, Life magazine captured both the energy and the misery of a hot summer day in the city.

The Nixon era is reigning on the catwalks and the streets and shows no signs of resigning. Let's drop the politics and get to the ladies who defined the style of the imitable decade. Count them down and take sartorial notes.

Bold, Beautiful and Young - The London Look may have typified the mod Sixties, but now at the tail of the decade, it is America once again, on the wing of the hippy revolution, where

What turned me away from painting was a realization that the streets and parks of Boston provided me with subject matter that I could not conjure up in my studio. At that point, a blank canvas drew nothing but a blank stare. So, with a newly purchased 35mm Leica loaded with tri-x film, I began …