Let's Go Back to Swinging London

Yesterday, I had a sudden urge to really feel what Swinging London was all about—the fashion, the color, the younthful energy and the music, from 1963 to 1970. The stores on Kings Road and Carnaby Street, the styles, the cars, the makeup, the hair styles—the works. I also wanted to know how it all came about and why then, at that moment. So I revved up the old YouTube time machine and blasted off into the past. I had so much fun, I decided to create the same experience for you. Want to know where the youth culture first exploded in color? Forget about San Francisco in 1967. Head back to London, where loud color in pop clothes made of new cutting-edge materials was invented in the very early 1960s:

Here's an overview from 1967...

Here's a wonderfully scripted look at the clothing shops...

Here's Mary Quant's "wet"clothing revolution in 1963...

Here's a young team hard at work on London's Intra magazine, a fashion and trend-spotting fashion publication...

Here's Twiggy, the first female model of significance in the 1960s and the first model to express the new androgyny...

And here's where it all started in London, with Mary Quant, Foale & Tuffin and Vidal Sassoon in the early 1960s...

Bonus: Here's one of my favorite 1960s Brit easy-listening composers and conductors, Syd Dale, from 1966...