In the 1980s, fashion wanted to make a statement, and it found its way into legendary British fashion photographer David Bailey their perfect chronicler. After Bailey adapted the style of Swinging Sixties had helped to shape the fashion of the eighties, presented a completely new challenge: brighter colors, even more glamour, tall models, extreme makeup, spandex, lycra, jumpsuits, power dressing, big hair and how Grace Coddington As the foreword puts it, “jackets with huge shoulder pads worn over the shortest miniskirts and dangerously high heels.”

Eighties brings together Bailey's style-defining fashion photographs from the pages of Vogue Italia , Vogue Paris , Tatler and numerous others. Featuring images of couture, runway and prêt-à-porter collections from the pioneering designers of this decade, including Azzedine Alaïa, Comme des Garçons, Guy Laroche, Missoni, Stephen Jones, Valentino and Yves Saint Laurent , the book is a testament to a decade that dissolved hierarchies of taste to bring fun and sex back into fashion, and reminds us that neither is indecent. Here, jewelry glitters, silk shimmers, and suit fabric rustles. Playful, invincible, and provocative, the most beautiful of the beautiful are presented, including icons of the 1980s such as Catherine Bailey, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Catherine Deneuve, Princess Diana, Jerry Hall, Marie Helvin, Grace Jones, Kelly LeBrock, Christy Turlington, Tina Turner and many more.

The cultural echoes of the 1980s present on our screens, catwalks and concert stages make today's era particularly suitable for recontextualising the lasting legacy of maximalism and excess. Eighties makes this possible in a unique way with David Bailey as a tongue-in-cheek guide and interpreter. As he says in his foreword: "The eighties proved to be magical." Here, that magic comes alive.