Beverly Hills Cop… MTV… pretty much every Vision Street Wear style I ripped off and paint-penned onto my grip tape & sneakers… I’ve often heard my art-history-majoring wife talk about the “Memphis movement” (which has nothing to do with Tennessee, btw), and now it’s fun to take a closer look at this “amusing, appalling” style:
Interesting.
But Keith Haring still comes to my mind first ‘n foremost as the icon of the ’80s look.