STAY GOLD – THE OUTSIDERS

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Rumour has it, when Francis Ford Coppola was looking for a new film to make back in 1982, it was his daughter Sophia who recommended S.E. Hinton’s teen classic ‘The Outsiders’. Her recommendation was a winner, the all-star cast and the coming of age theme, along with a classic wardrobe made it an instant hit.

As with West Side Story, gangs and stylised youth sub-culture never looked so good, in this case, it’s the privileged ‘Soc’s’ in their Sta-Prest and Madras checks, versus the white-trash ‘Greasers’ in dirty denim, hooded sweats and cut-off Mickey Mouse tees.

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Click here for The Making Of The Outsiders’ photographs by Nancy Moran for Vanity Fair.

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