VINTAGE 1980s!

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My totally fabulous grandmother passed down her jewelry stash today, and I found this wonderful kinetic Eve Kaplin brooch in the lot! Thought of this thread (and Linda particularly!) immediately. So glad I can better appreciate this beautiful piece thanks to this site!
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I will not start collecting this fab vintage, I will not start collecting this fab vtg.......
After this thread I keep seeing this or like everywhere I go. Linda, linda.
 
lindapoirier said:
Show and Tell

I wanted to start a thread because I couldn't find one on the 1980s. Specifically to show and tell.

I have always said that the 80s were not given enough credit. They reached back to the past and reinvented. Amazing and sometimes outlandish creations. I think the Memphis Group.

My fascination began when I came across Eve Kaplin. A pair of earrings. I had seen Memphis but never really considered it until I saw the aforementioned designer. She has said that she really wasn't inspired by the Group but it's undoubtedly part of her influence. As are, IMO, Alexander Calder and the post-modernists like Kandinsky and Malevich and even Miro.

She died very young, and I really can't figure out if it was an illness she contracted in Brazil or even a plane crash. She was 28 and died January 1, 1984. Tragedy. Imagine what she would have accomplished.

I recently found a necklace to round off my Eve Kaplin jewelry collection. I'd been searching for a some time now. It was my most expensive vintage purchase to date but I couldn't resist.

Here is my Kaplin collection, to date. The necklace is reversible.

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So what from the 1980s do you collect? What are you searching for from this decade? What do you love and why?

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I was a teenager in the 80s but I'm afraid all I have left are some photos and vinyl albums :)
 
lindapoirier said:
Acme Studios is reproducing their Memphis line of jewelry.

http://acmestudio.com/acme_legacy-jewelry/
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I went to that site, thanks to your link, and wound up buying a pin, because it perfectly matched an outfit I bought about an hour before -- well, I am not into combat boots (see below).

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When I went to order it, though, a message appeared that said something about opening their vault for the sale of some (all?) of the 1980's pins and once they are gone they are gone. When my pin arrived it came with this card:

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So, it looks like they are not reproductions, but 1980's originals.

Thanks for the link!
 
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Kim, are those for customizing an oversized tee into fit and drape of choice? I had a couple of those that I loved. They worked great during my pregnancy in 1990, with leggings underneath.
 
I bought this gorgeous 80s choker recently for a snip, not knowing the designer, Farah Lister, apparently quite collectable but I know nothing about her. I have seen a few examples, some of them incredibly highly priced but then others so so much lower, I have no idea why??

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This screams 1980s MC Hammer to me as legs very large but label stated in label resource here early 90s.
Any ideas?
 

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Well the wall went down in November 89 and labels using “made in West Germany” could have been used well into the first year or so afterwards. Hammer came out with his “Cant Touch This” in 90, but the pants in the video were very harem in design. I think yours are earlier than late 80s/ early 90s but by how much, not sure. Probably had a matching top.
 
Thank you. The widest part of the leg is 22.25 inches laid flat so I would call them Hammer pants. Thank you.
 
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