The End of a Dynasty

I don't mind confessing that I am of an age which means I can quite clearly remember the 80's and all the wonderful crazy, overblown fashions that the decade produced...

Women and men alike were into dressing to the max, and the bolder the colour and crazier the pattern the better.

Even at a young age I was aware that this was a time of high glamour and glitz, and nothing was more of the time than cult American t.v show Dynasty.

Set in Denver Colorado, Dynasty was the tale of two families at war: the Colby's and the Carrington's. The Stars of the show for me and many others were Joan Collins who played super bitch Alexis Colby and Linda Evans who played Crystal Carrington, and boy did these ladies like to have a cat fight! lol

It was shoulder pads at dawn on many an occasion, and the Manolo's were always super high, just to make the point that these women were super rich and super powerful!

The shows chief designer Nolan Miller, has sadly recently passed away, but leaves a legacy that will be never forgotten and which designers will continue to draw inspiration from.

Nolan's weekly budget for the shows wardrobe is said to have been $35,000!!! and it is said that the shows creator Aaron Spelling told Nolan that ‘I never want to see them wear the same thing twice’ and that his brief for the series was to design for ‘a fantasy of a lifestyle – if you were rich, rich, rich this is how you would live’.....

I still aspire to live the 'Dynasty lifestyle' and I'm sure that many other women who can remember, are of the same thinking!!!

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Fiona x