Although fashion would never return to the strict dress codes last imposed in the 1950s, day and evening clothes were well defined in the 1980s, even while undercurrents of the avantgarde and postmodernism led to a multiplicity of styles. Thierry Mugler’s strong-shouldered day suits and Christian Lacroix’s historicizing evening dresses helped define the decade. The draped knits of avant-garde Japanese fashion, however, looked forward to the deconstructed, layered silhouette of the 1990s, when standard dress codes were not embraced.
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