Girl Style
Leida Haury
"Revolution Girl Style Now!" turned into "Girl Power" the catchphrase of manufactured pop superstars the Spice Girls; the Lilith Fair became one of the largest-grossing summer music festivals of the 90s; and Titanic made half a billion dollars at the box office largely from, according to the Nation's Katha Politt, 'Women-especially teenage girls-whose repeated viewings, often in groups of friends, have made Titanic the highest grossing movie in history." Yes, it was a revolution all right: Women were finally recognized as a market force that stretched into the previously male-dominated realm of entertainment. So what happened? How did "revolution girl-style now!" get turned into a marketing scheme? Two words: the media."[7]
"She had a great collection of Bikini Kill and Bratmobile, and also first-wave punk music," Klein, now 26, recalls. "I would look at the girls on the cover of the Bikini Kill CD. They looked really confident and filed with this secret emotional power. And I thought, 'OK, this is who I wanna be in a few years.'"
"Revolution Girl Style Now" was the title of Bikini Kill's 1991 demo cassette. Drummer Tobi Vail describes the slogan as "a call for all girls to start bands, start 'zines and participate in the making of independent culture."
In punk's anti-authoritarian, "here's three chords, now form a band," ideology. young women on the sidelines of the scene saw a crucial opportunity for self-expression and self-determination. The Riot Grrrl movement would eventually take almost as many forms as there were participants, but it was at least in part an effort to get women and girls in the punk community back on the mic.
On August 20, 1991, in Olympia, Washington, members of Bikini Kill and Bratmobile, along with 15 other all-girl or female-fronted bands, took the stage at an event called "Love Rock Revolution Girl Style Now" or simply, "Girl Night." Girl Night was the kickoff show of the International Pop Underground Convention (IPU), a five-day gathering of D.I.Y. scenesters organized by K Records' Calvin Johnson and Candice Pederson.
Earlier that year, Vail had published an article in her 'zine Jigsaw speculating about what an all-girl rock show with an all-girl audience would look like. "Just by asking the question," Vail says, "People got really angry, saying we were 'separatists,' which made it seem necessary for it to happen."
By the late '90s, "girl power," a slogan that began its life in the pages of Riot Grrrl 'zines, achieved dubious cultural ubiquity when it was appropriated by studio-choreographed U.K. pop sensations the Spice Girls.
So this year, spurred by Marcus' book, she decided to make her own attempt at DIY feminist organizing. "I thought Riot Grrrl was this movement of cool, famous ladies," Klein says. "I read the book, and it made it seem like it really had to do with girls coming together and making change in their communities. And I thought, you know, this doesn't seem so hard! Anyone could do this."
All eyes are on Milan as brands like Prada, Gucci, and Ferragamo show their spring 2024 collections this week. The fashion set has touched down in Italy for all of the glitzy clothes (and parties), and while they are certainly fun to watch, there so happens to be a distinctive wardrobe among the locals. You already know French-girl style, but this is Italian-girl style.
The Italian touch, for me, is a mix of many things: a sense of beauty; craftsmanship; elegance; natural style; harmony in shapes, colors, and proportions; unconventional and effortless allure; confidence; and fierceness.
I was born and raised in Italy and learned to appreciate Italian style thanks to my mother and grandmother. Living in a city like Milan gives you the chance to get great inspiration from the people around you. It is always nice to see the style of different generations, from the youngest to the ladies.
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Even better if you have some dainty jewels passed down from a relative. I always wear a few rings passed down to me and I live in my Mejuri choker and Missoma horn necklace. Go ahead and layer it all on together, for multiple necklaces play with a few different lengths and chain styles.
Forget teetering around in uncomfortable heels, find some neutral flats for walking and exploring. French girl style is as much about the clothes as it is about the lifestyle and attitude, carefree and ready for adventure.
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The experts commented: Incorporate luxurious textiles and stick to a neutral palette. Oversized knits, relaxed-fit pants, fresh sneakers, slip-ons, or boots are ideal as they balance comfort and style, staying chic and away from slouchy territory.
Here the revolution girl-style becomes a revolution not about spiritual freedom but about bodily freedom. When 424 women are raped in the United States each day and roughly half of those are under 19, it seems a logical focus for any feminism, particularly a youth movement. For the Riot Girls, the new world might be nothing more than a world where they can walk down the street at night, as far as they want, even into the early hours of the morning.
Jessica Hopper was on her way to photography class at her Minneapolis high school last month when she saw it: splashed across her locker was a crude obscenity scrawled in purple magic marker. An effusive 16-year-old with long brown hair, Hopper loves taking pictures more than anything but punk-rock music. When she saw the scrawl, she thought she knew who did it: one of two guys who she says regularly called her names like "feminazi." Just a few days earlier, she had found herself alone in the school darkroom with one of them-a boy, she says, "who touches girls." According to Hopper, he came up and placed both his hands on her shoulders. She told him to stop. "He went,"-she fakes a low, suggestive moan-"'Oooh.' And I said, 'I mean it'." So he started doing the same thing to another girl nearby. "And I said, 'Don't touch me or my friends!'"
All girls get harassed. Most learn during adolescence to ignore it, hoping it will end. But Hopper had an an outlet for her frustration. She's a Riot Grrrl-part of a support network of activist "girls" from 14 to 25 who are loosely linked together by a few punk bands, weekly discussion groups, penpal friendships and more than 50 homemade fanzines. Hopper started her own fanzine last year, which she photocopies for friends and pen pals. She calls it Hit It or Quit It, and every few months she pours herself into her very feminist, very gushy essays, like the recent one that began coyly, "I used to say that I hated men," only to follow with the knockout punch: "I guess I actually did."
The Riot Grrrls are a new feminist voice for the video-age generation, inflamed not so much by economic issues as by social ones-incest, child abuse, abortion, eating disorders, harassment. Patching together wildly mixed ideas from Madonna, Sassy magazine and feminist critics like Susan Faludi and Naomi Wolf, they've set out to make the world safe for their kind of girlhood: sexy, assertive and loud. The Riot Grrrl credo runs: "We are mad at a society that tells us that Girl = Dumb, Girl = Bad, Girl = Weak... [We] can and will change the world for real." They may be the first generation of feminists to identify their anger so early and to use it.
The Riot Grrrls follow in the very '90s footsteps of groups like Queer Nation or the rap act Niggers With Attitude, who apply a kind of linguistic jujitsu against their enemies. Instead of downplaying the negative stereotypes used against them, they exaggerate them-starting with the very notion of "girls." At last summer's Riot Grrrl convention in Washington, D.C., which drew scores of the faithful to Dupont Circle to talk teen feminism and listen to punk rock, Grrrls marked their bodies with blunt five-inch-high letters reading RAPE or SLUT-an MTV-era way of saying, "That's what you think of me; confront your own bigotry." Courtney Love of the Los Angeles band Hole-who's not a Riot Grrrl but, as Hopper says, "the patron saint of Riot Grrrls"-wears vintage little-girl dresses that barely make it past her hips-all the better to sing songs about rape and exploitation. "I prefer being a minority because it makes me feel special," says Love. As Riot Grrrl wanna-be Camille Paglia says, "It's like Madonna-she dresses like a whore, but she always knows what she wants. These girls are dressed to kill but ready to fight."
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