Fashion
From the Archive: Fashion on the Slopes: 1970s Aprés Ski Style in WWD
When the aprés-ski look of the 1950s was still all the talk in fashion, Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) kept its readers up to date in its “They…
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1970s
Culture
The Greatest Martial Arts Movie From Every Year of the 1970s
Martial arts, a genre that is incredibly simple in scope as it is wide-ranging in influence. While martial arts films have long been a…
News
Think late-night TV is controversial now? Wait until you hear what happened in the 1970s
Late-night talk shows are a uniquely American invention that blend humor, the news of the day, and celebrity guests. While Johnny Carson…
Culture
‘Man on the Run’ Review: A Doc on Paul McCartney’s Wings Years Giddily Catalogs the Star’s Fruitful 1970s Run but Doesn’t Truly Let Us In
Is the cause of Wings something that really needs to be … evangelized? Apparently so. When “Man on the Run,” a documentary about Paul…
Lifestyle
Diane Von Furstenberg: Authentic Style, Power and Allure
In a Sept. 9, 1976, article taken from the WWD archives, DVF talked fashion and self-expression. “I like to see the body in clothes,“ says…
News
“Drop Dead City” Spotlights a Lost Era of Liberal Government
At a time when the very function of government is being destroyed from within, an extraordinary historical documentary, “Drop Dead City,”…
Culture
An Ingénue’s Intimate Snapshots of the New Hollywood
Candy Clark came to Hollywood at the dawn of the seventies, a spunky twentysomething who’d fled her conservative Texas home town and taken…