Television and cinema have both been very much influenced by the Retro vibe. We have had seemingly endless reworkings of films and programs from thirty or forty odd years ago. Clothes shops are full of 70s costumes and accessories. Many young people walk around in the latest fashions and remain totally oblivious that their parents, at the same age, were dressed in a virtually identical way. Even things like fancy dress parties have been influenced.

So, is the world of fashion and design running out of ideas? Is it so desperate to come up with something different that it has had to go back in time? Well, to be fair, fashion has always been influenced by the designs of the past to some degree. If you are old enough to actually remember wearing some of the 70s costumes that are so popular again then it can be a little tedious to go through it all again though. The design of clothing can only come up with so many ideas before it gets to a point where it has done just about all there is to do.

When the obsession with 70s costumes, furniture, toys and music will finally burn itself out, is anyone’s guess but the 80s is already starting to become quite a big thing…