Claude Montana, troubled fashion designer known as the ‘Shoulder Pad King’ in the 1980s – obituary
Claude Montana, 1987 – PIERRE GUILLAUD/ AFP via Getty Images French fashion designer Claude Montana, who has died aged 74, probably defined the exaggerated silhouettes that characterized flamboyantly dressed women of the 1980s, for whom he was known as the “Shoulder Pad King”. At first, Montana’s aggressive silhouettes, heavily influenced by constructivism, shocked critics and… Read More »