#melrose ave

LADIES OF THE EIGHTIES -- MELROSE AVE STYLE.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on an American teenager in the early 1980s -- Alison Martino, c. 1983, American writer, fashionista, and blogger of Alison Martino's "Vintage Los Angeles."

"Growing up in Los Angeles, Melrose was my shopping destination as a teenager and helped define my adolescent growth. My entire wardrobe was filled with Parachute pants, “Flip” T-shirts, spiked wristbands and Doc Martins. I had my hair styled on Melrose and left with stripy blonde streaks teased, spiked and held up by aqua-net hairspray for my class photo in 1984. I remember seeing Madonna trying on vintage sweaters at "Comme des Garcons" during her "Lucky Star" days and Rob Lowe with Princess Stephanie at a magazine stand on Martel snatching up all the magazine covers they were on that week."

-- ALISON MARTINO'S VINTAGE LOS ANGELES," Melrose Ave in the '80s, published July 27, 2014

Life lately was a lot of work and it’s been hard. Haven’t really had a social life and got heartbroken for a lil bit there so this trip to LA has been more than I ever deserved I feel.

I got to be on fuckin melrose ave as a featured artist in a gallery. I will be telling my grandchildren that man. At least I hope I get to.