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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.

Fawcett, Hilary. "Fashioning The Second Wave: Issues across Generations." Studies in the Literary Imagination. March 1975-2010. Hilary Fawcett discusses fashion and how it effected women rights. The styles of the nineteen-seventies greatly influenced the women's rights movement. Fawcett also explores the connection between fashion to how women are percieved; she describes the fashion of her generation in the 1960s and 1970s, to the style and fashion of young girls now. This article will help me describe styles from the seventies and compare them to styles today. It will also help me explain the amount of respect clothing can give off to the public, when women are wearing different trends.

"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.

Klein, Richard, and Klein Richard. "Chanel's Cosmos." Sites: Journal of the Twentieth-Century/Contemporary French Studies 1.1 (1997): 251. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Nov. 2010
This article is about how Coco Chanel changed fashion in Europe. How she took womens fashion to a new level. Rather than keeping women's fashion as it was she made it easier to be fashionable. Her hat's were the start of her fame, and from there her carreer took flight

Critchell, Samantha. "Seventies look in spring fashion mirrors modern tastes and times." DailyNews Los Angeles. Los Angeles Newspaper Group. 24 Oct. 2010. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. In this article, written by Samantha Critchell, she compares the styles of the nineteen-seventies to today. In popular fashion shows, like ones in Milan, styles of the seventies are making a comeback. Some seventies fashion consists of high-wasted skirts, flowing shirts, long dresses, trousers, and shirtdresses. The colors and patterns are distinct, which makes this decade of fashion really stand out. This article is helpful in comparing and relating seventies fashion to today's fashion.

Rompalske, Dorothy. "Chanel number one." Biography 2.11 (1998): 60. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Nov. 2010. This article is a biography of how Chanel got started in fashion. It talks about what we see in today's fashion was started by her such as cardigan sweaters. Also, it talks about how she got started in the fashion world.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

"Coco Chanel." Biography.com. Web. 15 Nov 2010\nThis article from Biography.com is about everything from her childhood to her death. It also covers everything from her fashion to her love life. The article also talks about how the economic depression in the 1930s effected Chanel and her business. It also speaks about her connection with Nazi Germany and how she got out of the trouble that she should have been in.

Welters, Linda. "The Natural Look: American Style in the 1970s." Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture. 12:4 (2008): 489-510. This source focuses on the "look" identified on women in the nineteen seventies. Linda Welters, the author, describes the seventies appearance as natural. Welters divides the natural look into six catergories, "natural hair, natural body, natural cosmetics, natural materials, handcrafted clothing and accessories." I can use this article to compare and contrast how the natural look has continued into our generation, or how it has not. This source also gives good insight into trends seen with nineteen-seventies clothing.

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.

McGuigan, Cathleen and Ruth Tenenbaum. "All Dressed Up for The Youthquake." Newsweek. 20 March 2006. 61-63. Both authors discuss events that led to the major changed in fashion, especially during the '60s and '70s. They discuss that generally each decade has it's own sense of fashion, however, the styles from the '70s have "recycled" themselves throughout the decades. This article will help me further explain the '70s influence on today's styles.

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.

Grishin, Sasha. "Art Deco 1910-1939." Craft Arts International 74 (2008): 82-84. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 1 Nov. 2010.

This article gives a timeline of Art Deco's history starting with its preceeding movement leading up to Art Deco's height. There are examples of the different mediums Art Deco is demonstrated through such as fashion, architecture and artwork. The article mentions collections that have great examples of Art Deco. This article also mentions how Art Deco touched other countries, which proves that Art Deco was an international hit. This article includes several pictures which is a great way to obtain visual images of Art Deco.