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ooking back to the era known best as protect themselves leading up to the 20s. It the 20s that helped create the change in the
“The Roaring 20’s”, there are similari- was also an era of great protest; The Wom- world we live in today. Influential writers like
Lties of events and maybe it was a time en’s suffrage movement led the way to giving Ernest Hemingway, J. Scott Fitzgerald creat-
not too different from this decade before us. women more rights to vote in elections. The ed literary works that are required reading in
We are still coping and learning to live with Prohibition caused an outcry of the American most schools. Artists such as Pablo Picasso
COVID 19, wearing masks is commonplace. people as it put in place a nationwide consti- changed the way we looked at art. Fashion
The state of unrest that we are suffering in tutional ban on the production, importation, designers like Coco Chanel shaped the haute
that has many people in protest. As we go transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverag- couture and created fashion houses that still
through the difficulties of the time, we are es. This led directly to the rise of organized are designing today. The architectural design,
learning and growing in ways we might never crime with names like Al Capone leading the “Art Deco” replaced the previous design style,
have. fight to control the illegal sales and distribu- “Art Nouveau” with bold lines that still reso-
In the 1920s, the Great War was put behind tion of alcohol. The Bolshevik Revolution nate and is appreciated in our modern times.
the people thanks to the Armistice and mass in 1918 created an ideology in America for This is just a small look at the people and
production was forging a way for enormous pro-communist support also referred to as events. I f you do some research, you might
growth and opportunity for prosperity. In ret- the “Red Scare” Many strikes and protests be surprised at the people and companies
rospect to the masks we wear now, the 1918 were common place due to these events. that were a part of the decade that are still
Flu Pandemic still had many people in the af- Outside of the negative aspects, there are around in our current times.
fected areas wearing white surgical masks to much more positive events and influencers of

EGYPTIAN INFLUENCE MARY PICKFORD

Howard Carter discovered King Tuts’ Tomb
in 1922 which led to the Egyptian fashion Gladys Louise Smith, known professionally as
inspiration through this decade. This ‘find’ Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-American film
was to become a ‘movement’ within the actress and producer with a career that spanned
world or art, fashion, and architecture as five decades. A pioneer in the American film
the images of the artifacts swept the world. industry, she co-founded Pickford Fairbanks
Walk like an Egyptian! Studios and United Artists, and was one of the
36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences.
Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel was a French
fashion designer and businesswoman. The
founder and namesake of the Chanel brand, she
was credited in the post-World War I era with
liberating women from the constraints
of the “corseted silhouette” and
COCO CHANEL popularizing a sporty, casual chic as
the feminine standard of style. A
prolific fashion creator, Chanel
extended her influence beyond
couture clothing, realizing her design
aesthetic in jewelery, handbags,
and fragrance. Her signature scent,
Chanel No. 5, has become an iconic
product. She is the only fashion
designer listed on Time magazine’s
list of the 100 most influential people
of the 20th century. Chanel herself
designed her famed interlocked-CC
monogram, which has been in use
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since the 1920s.