90's Guy » Body Con http://90sguy.net Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:15:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 90′s wiki: Body Conscious! http://90sguy.net/body-conscious/ http://90sguy.net/body-conscious/#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:48:34 +0000 90s Girl http://90sguy.net/?p=190 For a certain type of 90s girl, there was only one look worth rocking. While riot grrls were covering themselves in lipstick and wearing ripped baby doll dresses, hip hop honeys were taking inspiration from the body-con trend of the 80s catwalk and showing of those curves in slick, skin-tight bandage dresses and high-waisted trousers.

Alaia dress and Versace bondage body pics from Decade

The street look borrows from high fashion, but dresses are replaced with cycling shorts and bra tops. From House Party’s Sidney and Sharane to the backing dancers of Hammer and Sir Mix-a-lot, hey even Cindy Crawford, they were all on it. Although sometimes they did look like they were coming from the gym.

Some of our favourite body-con looks from the 90s

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It’s definitely a fashion trend that is being revisited at the moment. Herve Leger is the currently celebrity favourite (here) and pop stars from the UK’s Craig David to Flo Rida have bought it back for the noughties:

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Trivia

Body-con, which stands for body-conscious – or should that be body confidence? – was first championed by designers such as Azzedine Alaia, Herve Leger and Gianni Versace in the 80s and provided the inspiration for a hot look!

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