Current “in style” and hot trends can always be easily identified on a college campus. In the 1960’s and 1970’s co-eds decorated their rooms with lavish lava lamps and beads in their doorways, psychedelic colored posters adored each wall and black lights were “groovy” to have around. In the 1990’s lava lamps made a huge comeback in nearly every college girl’s dorm room, beads were once again hung in doorways in campuses across America and psychedelic posters were resurrected on white dorm walls. Even black lights made an appearance to even out the trend. So, what are this year’s college freshmen using as the prime theme of decor for their dorm rooms?
Vintage film posters populate walls from Hudson University to UCLA and all points between. Girls who had not even been a glimmer in their parents’ eyes when “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” was released in theatres are hanging Audrey on the wall and buying dark glasses and pearl necklaces. Classic film posters from A-list hits such as “Scarface” or D-list wonders such as “Evil Dead” are hung up every day. The black and white posters are only the tip of the movie memorabilia iceberg.
What is the reason that twenty year old men and women are reaching back to the days of drive in movies and black and white pictures? No one knows for sure, but maybe they are yearning for a more simple time when humor was light hearted and times were easier to understand or maybe it is just the allure of classics that caught a hold of them again.
Classic movie posters are just the start. Intelligent marketers from all over the nation make millions from merchandising. Everything from catch phrase t-shirts to accessories and freestanding figurines from the movies are found in local malls. Vintage film posters are now more popular than they have ever been. At poster sales on college campuses across the nation, they are selling out of “Dracula” and “The Blob” posters faster than posters of newer films. Vintage film posters are now more popular than ever.
Another time and a fantasy of what you could have been can be imagined with posters. They can help keep your memories alive and capture the imagination of a time you wish you lived in also. Some students put posters up to remind them of their youth in high school or childhood, and others put them up to let others know who they are. Film students used to be the only ones who displayed independent art/film posters, but now the audience for them is now much larger.
More than twenty years ago most American teens had posters displaying the sexy Faye Dunaway or the incredible Elvis Presley hanging from their wall. Today, the hottest trends with teens in posters are those same figures that were popular way back then. These iconic representations are the perfect gift for that young man or lady in your life, and can give them the same expression of happiness that they gave an older generation upon receipt.
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- Daniel Wright