80's Films You May Have Forgotten

Ok, so you can quote every line to The Breakfast Club and Weird Science, but here's some 80's film that totally capture the decade in all its glory featuring some pretty big names that you might have forgotten about...

	Modern Girls (1986) "A pair of women decide to prank their roommate's nerdy blind date after she stands him up, but end up developing a friendship with him after their practical joke sends them on an all-night odyssey through the 1980s club scene." Starring:  Daphne Zuniga, Virginia Madsen, Cynthia Gibb Soundtrack: Depeche Mode, Chris Isaak, Club Nouveau, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Toni Basil, The Belle Stars, The Call, Icehouse, and more
	Fire With Fire (1986) "A young woman from a Catholic school and a young man from a nearby prison camp fall in love and must run away together to escape the law, the church and their parents." Starring: Virginia Madsen, Craig Sheffer (Hardy Jenns from Some Kind Of Wonderful), Jean Smart Soundtrack: Prince, Huey Lewis & The News, Bryan Ferry, John Waite,
	Tuff Turf  (1985) "The new kid in school must battle a gang of street toughs after stealing the gang leader's girl." Starring: James Spader, Rober Downey Jr., Jim Carroll (as himself) Soundtrack: The Jim Carroll Band, Lene Lovich, Marianne Faithfull, and more
	Vibes (1988) "Psychics hired to find lost temple." Starring: Cyndi Lauper, Jeff Goldblum, Steve Buscemi
	The Hunger (1983) I'm always surprised how many people haven't seen this film... "A love triangle develops between a beautiful yet dangerous vampire, her cellist companion, and a gerontologist." Starring: David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Catherine Deneuve Soundtrack: Bauhaus, Iggy Pop

Stephen Sprouse

Sprouse (center) with Teri Toye (left)

Stephen Sprouse is credited for bringing street culture to high fashion, and of course bringing 60's day-glo back in his neon collections. His 1983 collections were sold exclusively at Bergdorf Goodman and Henri Bendel in New York City on a small scale. His 1984 Fall runway show at the Ritz (now Webster Hall),  packed the house with the most glamorous downtown personalities of the time, including Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry. Transgender model Teri Toye led the show, which ended with a video of a NASA shuttle launching into space. He then declared bankruptcy in June 1985.
In 2001, fellow punk-influenced designer Marc Jacobs collaborated with Sprouse on graffiti-print bags for Louis Vuitton.  Sprouse passed away in 2004 from lung cancer.

The Stephen Sprouse Book, by Roger Padilha and Mauricio Padilha, was released on January 13, 2009.

You can still find some of his vintage 80's pieces on eBay, but look carefully because much of it is from his later 2001 line.