Style inspiration: Neon Facts

We've been giving neon colors side-eye since for a while, but you’re not sure how to pull it off now that you’re not 12 anymore. Can it be done? Absolutely. Get some background information about neon and its evolution:

Neon was discovered in London by British chemists Sir William Ramsay and Morris W. Travers, when Ramsay chills an atmospheric sample until it becomes liquid. Once warmed, the chemists capture the gases as it boils, therein producing “neon”. It becomes an element on the Periodic Table.

Fact: In Greek the very word “neon” translates to “new one”, which seems ironic, considering every 20 years fashion finds a new use for it.1930s: Neon starts to litter the avenues of Las Vegas in the form of huge, gaudy signs attracting gamblers, dancers and mobsters to “The Strip”. Today, there is a museum dedicated to these relics of Americana.

1962: The year of Marilyn Monroe’s suicide. Andy Warhol experiments with bright gold, blue, pink and green in his famous painting of Monroe’s iconic face, making neon a permanent stain on pop culture’s sordid and colorful history.

1980s: Neon has been a staple in the wardrobes of the fashionably avant garde for nearly 20 years by this point; it starts to appear in modern clothing of the time, like wind-breaker jackets and jelly shoes.

1990s: Neon has a new role as the fashion choice of club kids in the underground rave scene of New York and London. It’s in makeup, glitter and glow sticks and even in hair dye; it’s now part of a counter-culture that exemplifies freedom, parties and wild times.


2012: Neon has a new attitude; it’s more demure and less in your face than the neon of yesteryear. Dashes of bright, punchy neon in fitness gear and on nails are likely where most will dabble in the return of this offbeat trend.

Stylist -Pamela Shepard
@pspamelashepard
Make-up- Geeta Khanna
Hair- Eve Nareya

Source: TheKit