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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 268295" data-attributes="member: 57984">Yes, for all of its narrative and executional flaws,  DYNASTY had more effect on changing street fashion than any series in TV history, with Joan Collins its most influential clotheshorse. Ever.Superior as its storytelling usually was, we used to guffaw over early-DALLAS' cheapy office and home decor and oft-repeated K-Mart fashions for a family supposedly so fabulously wealthy, and long before DYNASTY ever existed. But when Princess Diana, the Rayguns, MTV, and DYNASTY came in circa '80/'81, things began to change: "rich and glamorous" became a major cultural trend, and DALLAS had to get on board with it, and did so by around 1983. It seems they'd tried to ignore their overdressed upstart rival, DYNASTY, but DALLAS couldn't permanently ignore DYNASTY'S impact on the media or the world at large in terms of wardrobe.Even Princess Diana and the Rayguns cited DYNASTY as an influence. And when producers decided to remove the shoulder pads from their gowns and outfits in 1987, the catwalks of Paris and Milan went crazy, claiming they would be ruined because their entire fall line still had shoulderpads. Miller's picture wound up on the cover of The Wall Street Journal and the DYNASTY brass had to scramble to release a follow-up statement asserting they were only minimizing the shoulderpads; as a result, the fashion hubs of Europe relaxed.Nolan Miller was the most important designer of the 1980s, full stop, due solely to DYNASTY. Even Armani, my favorite, had to take a backseat to Miller and his neo-40s creations.In that way, DYNASTY led, and DALLAS had to get in line with it; Pam and Sue Ellen Ewing couldn't very well be out-dressed by Blaire and Tooti. And the idea that DYNASTY copied the Texas-based serial in terms of haute couture is just a blatant revisionist fib.<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c2/2b/d9/c22bd9fc567a4b13ad6845a2883585a8.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/7a/09/c4/7a09c41de162aade6c2a8ac5daf250e4--s-fashion-haku.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Travilla didn't dress FC? I didn't remember that.<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3d/39/a7/3d39a716483c74a13495a37f212ccc6b.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-li_oiFk9X5g/VrfK56ACnFI/AAAAAAAABvo/RFu3IxcPRu8/s1600/LizPink2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4tq2K_37gPc/U2Sf8cGj6zI/AAAAAAAAA5k/GOPecTWHZc4/s1600/zliz12.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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