Club Culture

The Blitz Kids

The Blitz Kids were a young group of people in the late 1970s, early 80s, who attended a particular club night, Blitz, in Covent Garden. These fashionable youths included the likes of Boy George and Steve Strange. Their fashion and makeup/hair styling was completely over the top and outrageous, but so very trendy and influential. Here began a "New Romantic subcultural movement", changes in music, fashion and behaviour as they entered into the 80s.

Wikipedia, (2014). Blitz Kids. [online] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz_Kids [Accessed 5 Dec. 2014].

Crucially, the club was located between two art colleges (St Martin's School and Central School) and became a testground for student fashion designers who set London ablaze during the 1980s. Their style would be very androgynous and sometimes gender wasn't apparent as The Blitz club was a night where anything goes. The place was often hitting the headlines with the outrageous costumes and makeup for both sexes. It was a gathering place for people with confidence, and often talent as lots of pop bands and successful musical celebrities were born here.

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This video discusses the fashion, party lifestyle and the backlashes of such an intense drug and sex element of partying. It makes you understand and realise that there are repercussions of their loose living party animal lifestyle. This can be compared to Goodbye To Berlin with Sally Bowels. Her party lifestyle and sleeping with multiple men led her to her pregnancy, which was a highly confusing and emotional time for her. She was lucky to not become very ill with diseases or drug abuse and addiction. 

Recent/Today's Club Kids:

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