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Smith, Ray A. "'70s Style: Ridiculous or Right On?" Wall Street Journal-Eastern Edition 256 October 2010. This article focuses on today's fashion shown in several fashion shows this fall. The author, Ray A Smith, notices the parallels between today's fashion shown on the runways versus the fashion shown on the runways in the '70s. Smith investigates reasons as to why many designers today bring back styles from the '70s. This article will help me understand and be able to notice the close similarities between today's fashion to the fashion of the '70s.

"Now & Then Great Fashion" People 7. October 2009: 103-104. This magazine article is an interview with many famous fashion designers, discussing the trends of the seventies and the trends of today. It discusses fashion worn by some of the first ladies in history, and then mentions today's first lady, Michelle Obama. This article will help me a lot because it has fashion designers opinions on different trends throughout generations.

Davis, Mary E. "Classical Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism". University of California Press. 2006. Print. This book is all about Classical Chic during the modernism movement. There are many different chapters including an entire chapter on Coco Chanel. The chapter started out by talking about she influenced the 1920s and the 1930s. How she turned around the fashion of the time. She kept the ideas of the "liberated women" and applied it to all of her work. It goes through each of her steps to how she became the iconic fashion designer she is today. Also, each of the types of article of clothing that made her so iconic. It then goes on to talk about how the label as taken over after her death.

Sischy, Ingrid. "Coco Chanel. (Cover story)." Time 151.22 (1998): 98. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. This article is a retrospect from TIME magazine about the designer Coco Chanel. It talks about how other famous designers have copied some of Chanel's strategies. How she offered the people that wore her clothes were given the feeling of "hidden luxury" rather than outwardly ostentatious luxury. The article speaks about how Chanel constantly spoke of femininity rather than feminism. Chanel was part of a movement of designers that made fashion a type of art and expressing yourself. The article also talks about the way that Chanel "stuck it to the man", so to speak. It speaks about her early life and how she got to be the famous designer that she ended her life as

Straub, Anne. "Ruth Funk". Ornament. 2009. 33:1. 56-61. Anne Straub focuses on designer Ruth Funk who brings styles from the '70s into today's fashions. Straub explains that Ruth finds her inspiration from designs from the '70s movement, but brings her own personal style into it. This article proves that the '70s fashion movement still influences many designers today. Funk is even influenced by simple patterns from the '70s. This article will help me use examples of designers from today using patterns and styles from the '70s.

Davis, Mary. "Chanel, Stravinsky, and Musical Chic." Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture 10.4 (2006): 431-460. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Nov. 2010.

This article is about how Chanel change the fashion world. How she went to the streets of France to get the inpiration for her designs. The simple style was the new Chic after the war. Being comfortable took precedence over the elegance of an outfit. The article also is about how her style changed otherr aspects of modern art in the 1900s.

White, Rene Minus. "A 70's look in fall '08 fashions". New York Amserdam News. 21 Feb 2008. 20-21. Print Rene Minus White reports on the '08 fall designs during a fashion show at the New York Public Library at Bryant Park. White describes the specific styles models wear that relate to the '70s. From the fringed bags, richly pattered skirts,and sequins on shirts, all the styles are very similar to that of the 70s. This is a useful article to help me describe the great influence the '70s has on our fashion today.

This is a shorter article from the UK vogue website. It gives the main facts about Chanel's life. When she lived and died. How she got started with her fashion line. About the building where the clothes are still designed. Not a very long article but it gives the important facts about Coco Chanels life.

Soll, Lindsay. "The Swinging '70s." Entertainment Weekly 1001. July 2008: 20-20. This article discusses the influence of seventies fashion in today's culture. Lindsay Soll, the author, researches the TV show, "Swingtown" which takes place in the '70s. Soll describes the fashion and jewlery used in the show. Soll also discusses how the "Swingtown" costume designer found the authentic look from the '70s for the cast. This article lets me see the style of the 70s through writing and clips of the TV show, and what are the most authentic look of the 70s.

Ingrassia, Michele and Biddle, Nina Archer. "The color of Barbie". Newsweek. 16 January 1995. Authors Ingrassia and Biddle, discuss how the '70s and earlier decades brought color in to fashion. In particular, the color pink. It's hard not to notice that in fashion today the color black is most prevailent followed by brown. Designers have began to incorporate patters with colors based on looks from the '70s and '60s. This article will help me discuss the influence of not only patterns and designs from the '70s but also now colors.

Jennings, Tracy. "Sades of Chanel". Clothing and Textiles Research Journal. ohioLINK. Web. 3 Nov 2010. This is about how Chanel's work has influenced this person to make their own design. How Chanel's past work is seen in every aspect from the design, color and to the cut and fabric of the suit.

Krick, Jessa. "Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) and the House of Chanel". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Web. 15 Nov. 2010.
This article rather than being a biography about her life this is mainly about the revolution of her clothing line. How she first got started and her early successes. Then it goes on to describe how she became the style icon of of her time. Also it outlines how she had to close the doors to her store when France went into World War II. Then it talks about how she made her come back after the war was over. The last part of the article talks about how even through her her death her legened as a designer lives on.

Hip-hop style, a controversial dress form associated with rap music culture in the 1990s, is analyzed and interpreted based on premises associated with structural approaches to semiotics. The semiotic system is isolated in time, and three coding operations are considered in terms of the relationships they establish between elements of the system and potential meanings ascribed to these: paradigmatic alignment (bipolar opposition), denotation and connotation (literal and extended descriptions), and figurative devices (implied figures of speech). Results reveal the structure of the system in terms of a dialectic between signs in the hip-hop system and signs in the system of conventional dress. Components of the rule system of conventional dress are exposed, and figurative language supporting the hip-hop system is described. The hip-hop system is construed as an example of a larger category of appearance-related systems designated extraordinary dress, poised in opposition to ordinary appearance forms. Implications include potential contributions to theory development. (From the OhioLINK abstract.)