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Why Amanda Lear is the Muse Who Never Goes Out of Fashion

WWD·Joelle Diderich·about 1 month ago
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Amanda Lear has literally seen it all. As companion and muse to the Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, she found herself at the nexus of ‘60s pop culture — dating doomed Rolling Stone guitarist Brian Jones, helping Mary Quant launch the miniskirt in the U.S. and later becoming a disco diva, with a little help from David Bowie. Over the course of her decades-long career, she’s cemented her status as a style icon, whether appearing on the cover of a Roxy Music album, on the runway for Thierry Mugler and Jean Paul Gaultier or on Italian and French TV as a presenter and star of popular variety shows from the mid-1980s. Among these, “Stryx,” an avant-garde production that fused black magic, disco glamour and medieval mysticism has gained cult status and continues to inspire creatives, almost 50 years after hitting the small screen. You May Also Like “It revolutionized Italian television. It was the advent of disco and color — but above all, it was the first time they had topless girls on TV.…

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