Swinging London
Swinging London is in the beginning a title of Time magazine of 1966.
It was used by the American journalists to explain why London had become the capital of the culture and the mode for the whole world.
One precipitated then in London for the shops, the clubs or the galleries of Article Soho and Carnaby Street where Mary Quant reigned, which imposed to it mini skirt on the whole world, fixed the tendencies. The city also then seemed to offer the possibility of more opened company, as it then was dreamed.
The Bohemian higher classes attended the proletarians embourgeoized thanks to their artistic successes: the hairdresser Vidal Sassoon or the photographer David Bailey. Large mannequins - high-speed motorboats of then like Twiggy or The Shrimp made career with Londres.
The series Bowler hat and leather boots is characteristic of this Swinging London: Steed represents the declining higher class and Mrs. Peel, woman released is artist and has a social origin more populaire.
the Beatles, James Bond (creates by Ian Fleming, the Mods are characteristic of this Belle time or England could finally launch out in the Consumérisme after years of war and austerity.
The main character of Blow-Up of Michelangelo Antonioni is the prototype of Swinging London just like the series of films Austin Powers.
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