After the 60s and 70s the fashion trend was punk rock style, but in the 80s there was a backlash. In the 80s art becomes more serious, adult and laborious taken to the extreme (Carnegy). In the 60s and 70s many stars dressed in menacing looks, but in the 80s they dressed more attractively with less makeup and colorful clothes. Women also changed their hair from long hair styles to perms and hairspray, and men dressed in many ways to reflect their ideas of control and power. Fashion brands became very important in the 1980s because many fashion trends were also set by famous pop stars. In the 1980s, fashion trends changed from hippie to yuppie and preppy. Many television shows, movies and pop stars influenced style in the 80s and there were many different fashion trends. Many television shows, Music Television (MTV), Madonna and movies influenced the fashion of the 80s. “MTV identified a youth market with money to spend, and the clothes and looks of the rock stars whose videos the music station played 24 hours a day created demand for high-end trends and thrift store rejects” (Batchelor & Stoddart 70 ). MTV showed what many famous stars looked like and what they wore, which prompted people to dress like famous stars. In the 80s many television programs also set trends in fashion. The famous show Miami Vice changed the fashion trend, forcing men across the country to wear formal clothes at work and casual clothes in other places such as nightclubs. Other fashion trends have become famous thanks to films. Many men wore Ray Ban sunglasses when Tom Cruise wore them in the movie Risky Business. Madonna also influenced 80s fashion in so many ways that she set fashion trends for young women of the 80s. One of the ways Madonna showed this was… middle of paper… in the 80s when popular stars were coming out with new styles like Madonna. Much of the fashion of the '80s is still popular today; women still wear miniskirts, oversized tops, huge earrings and more. Works Cited Batchelor, Bob and Scott Stoddart. The 80s. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2007. 67-77. Print.Carnegy, Vicky. The fashion of a decade: the 80s. New York: Chelsea House, 2007. Print. “Fashion in the 1980s: Overview.” Discovering the history of the United States. Detroit: Gale, 1997. Student Resources in Context. Network. April 15, 2014. Gianoulis, Tina and Rob Edelman. “80s: Fashion.” Bowling, beatniks, and bell-bottoms: Pop culture of 20th- and 21st-century America. Ed. Cynthia Johnson and Lawrence W. Baker. 2nd edition. vol. 5: 80s-90s. Detroit: U*X*L, 2012. 1213-1218. Student resources in context. Network. April 15, 2014."The 10 best fashion trends of the 80s." Like totally 80s. Np, 2014. Web. 13 April. 2014.