{"id":112217,"date":"2018-09-21T13:20:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T17:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=112217"},"modified":"2022-05-10T14:11:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T18:11:03","slug":"we-want-to-go-dancing-with-antonio-lopez-after-watching-sex-fashion-disco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=112217","title":{"rendered":"We want to go dancing with Antonio Lopez after watching &#8220;Sex Fashion &#038; Disco&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.centerimg {padding:4em 14em;margin:20px 0;}\n.centerimg2 {padding:4em 6em;margin:20px 0;\n.centerimg img {margin-bottom:0px;}\n.instagram-media {margin:auto !important;}\n#wp-content hr {margin: 40px auto 80px auto;width: 80%;}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"centerimg\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2018\/09\/Gallery_07.jpg\"  data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2018\/09\/Gallery_07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"702\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2018\/09\/Gallery_07.jpg 552w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2018\/09\/Gallery_07-503x640.jpg 503w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Donna Jordan, 1973<\/small>\n<\/div>\n<p>Whatever you\u2019re doing, stop. You don\u2019t even need to read this. Just go see <a href=\"http:\/\/sexfashiondisco.com\/\"><em>Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion &#038; Disco<\/em><\/a>, the documentary by James Crump. It\u2019s important for a few reasons, mainly because Lopez, the center figure of the documentary, lived a storied life as intoxicating and full of glamour as the film\u2019s title implies. Fashion, disco and yes, lots of sex. The Nuyorican fashion illustrator oozed brio, with the sweep of his hand turning his subjects\u2013\u2013already beautiful\u2013\u2013into exalted visions of the times. He was prophetic. His fabled diverse cast of muses or \u201cAntonio Girls\u201d, would become stars, aggrandized by his illustrations and their entourages&#8217; reputation as the &#8220;it&#8221; coterie. <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/models\/jerry-hall\">Jerry Hall<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/models\/pat-cleveland\">Pat Cleveland<\/a>, Donna Jordan, <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/people\/grace-jones\">Grace Jones<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/people\/jessica-lange\">Jessica Lange<\/a>, Jane Forth, Patti D&#8217;arbanville, Tina Chow all fell under the spell of Antonio Lopez. Supermodels themselves, they manifested the term now appointed to the women of the 90s. Not to mention friends like the late <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/people\/bill-cunningham\">Bill Cunningham<\/a>, who charmingly appears in the film giving wonderful anecdotes about \u201cthose kids\u201d or <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/people\/grace-coddington\">Grace Coddington<\/a> who recounts Lopez and the era between the 60s and 70s that was the cradle for fashion as we know it\u2013\u2013Lagerfeld, Yves Saint Laurent, Andy Warhol. Gush.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"centerimg2\">\n<div class=\"rl-gallery-container\" id=\"rl-gallery-container-1\" data-gallery_id=\"0\"> <div class=\"rl-gallery rl-basicgrid-gallery \" id=\"rl-gallery-1\" data-gallery_no=\"1\"> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2018\/09\/Gallery_17.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2018\/09\/Gallery_17-485x640.jpg\" width=\"485\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2018\/09\/Gallery_11.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2018\/09\/Gallery_11-495x640.jpg\" width=\"495\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <\/div><br \/>\n<small>LEFT: Grace Jones by Antonio Lopez, 1975 RIGHT: Donna Jordan, 1970<\/small>\n<\/div>\n<p>\tLopez was important not only because of the instinctual flair with which he could illustrate a figure and clothes (&#8220;He didn&#8217;t record, he rendered&#8221; says Cunningham), but because he embodied the liberation of fashion that was about to explode. Before him, fashion illustration was \u201cfrigid\u201d as Coddington put it. The Puerto Rican, bisexual artist championed diversity illustrating black models for Elle at a time when representation was paltry. All of his models bucked conventional beauty norms of the time, at least those in the pages of magazines. It\u2019s no coincidence the looks of his aforementioned muses like Pat, Donna, Grace and Jerry are in style on modern runways\u2013<a href=\"\/\/models.com\/models\/lili-sumner\">Lili Sumner<\/a> (Donna Jordan\u2019s literal doppelganger), <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/models\/adwoa-aboah\">Adwoa Aboah<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/models\/Leona-Binx-Walton\">Binx Walton<\/a> and Pat\u2019s daughter, <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/models\/anna-cleveland\">Anna Cleveland<\/a>, take for example, are far cries from conservative faces. I watched the film through a modern-day lens (and with a man chewing loudly behind me) and wondered could such unbridled social mythos ever be seen again in this smaller world, the Instagram epoch, where the curtains are pulled back and it-status orbits a follower count rather than the earning stripes out on the tiles\u2013being cool. Dancing and intrigue were the lion\u2019s share of the group\u2019s days in New York at the infamous Max\u2019s Kansas City (think Warhol, Edie, de Kooning, Patti Smith) or Paris&#8217; cafe culture. It often attracted company, like Karl Lagerfeld, who fawned over the bunch, or Warhol, who watched them to &#8220;see what would happen&#8221;. <\/p>\n<div class=\"centerimg\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2018\/09\/2340.jpg\"  data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2018\/09\/2340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1240\" height=\"1678\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2018\/09\/2340.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2018\/09\/2340-473x640.jpg 473w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2018\/09\/2340-946x1280.jpg 946w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1240px) 100vw, 1240px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Carol Labrie, Italian Vogue 1971<\/small>\n<\/div>\n<p>\tLopez\u2019s phalanx of collaborators also had Juan Ramos, the intellectual art director who refined Lopez\u2019s visceral talent into what you see on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?biw=1495&#038;bih=1114&#038;tbm=isch&#038;sa=1&#038;ei=7UulW-iJL663ggeJ0oKoCw&#038;q=antonio+lopez+illustrator&#038;oq=antonio+lopez+illustrator&#038;gs_l=img.3..0j0i8i30j0i30l2j0i24.2906.5571..5864...1.0..0.65.632.13......1....1..gws-wiz-img.......0i67.1yo30bvW3Zk\">google results<\/a> today, but also was his romantic partner from 1965-1970. Lopez was casual with his promiscuity, often having multiple love affairs at once. Sex was his raison d&#8217;\u00eatre, tethered to all things. In the film, testaments from his \u201cGirls\u201d all claim to have had crushes at one time on the irresistibly alluring Lopez who had a sort of sexual levity and magic\u2013the same magic that flowed from his hand to paper. Antonio also had a lengthy romance with young Jerry Hall when she joined the group in Paris. Coddington recounts her arriving in Jamaica for a photoshoot and walking off the plane in a fur coat or the mock-marriage thrown for the two on that same trip. Jerry, of course, would go on to be <em>Jerry Hall<\/em>-Jerry Hall, the famous one, who married and divorced Mick Jagger but not before giving us <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/models\/georgia-may-jagger\">Georgia May Jagger<\/a>. Antonio succumbed to AIDS at the age of 44 in 1987 during the epidemic that also claimed many including Juan and Tina Chow. Today, he would be 75\u2013\u2013his peers Grace Coddington and Karl Lagerfeld are still contributing to fashion, but no longer are subverting it\u2013would Antonio Lopez, by sheer force of sex, fashion and disco have more left to liberate? I think he&#8217;d have his work cut out for him.<\/p>\n<p><em>For viewing options, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.services\/sexfashiondisco.filmmovement.com\/antonio-lopez-1970-sex-fashion-disco\/\">film&#8217;s official website<\/a>. <\/em> <\/p>\n<div class=\"centerimg\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2018\/09\/Gallery_03.jpg\"  data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2018\/09\/Gallery_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"699\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2018\/09\/Gallery_03.jpg 473w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2018\/09\/Gallery_03-433x640.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Jerry Hall and Antonio Lopez by Norman Parkinson, 1975<\/small>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!--pp-thumb-start--><!--PictPress found no dir \/2018\/09\/112217--><!--pp-thumb-end--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why the documentary by James Crump &#8220;Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion &#038; Disco&#8221; is so worth seeing <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":112229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10414,2],"tags":[10609,2160,11381,10902,9154,2903,9410,8757,9413,9144,9572,2161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112217"}],"version-history":[{"count":94,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145381,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112217\/revisions\/145381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}