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This is all common knowledge.

You're not posting common knowledge. You're posting conjecture.

None of those acts you mentioned got their styles from a previous act. Many of them just dressed in the style that was popular in underground scenes and subcultures. For example, in the late 1950s/early 1960s when the "rocker" subculture was popular, the Beatles dressed rockers. When mod was popular, they dressed as mods. The Stones didn't grow their hair because of The Beatles. They were part of the mod/swinging London scene of the 1960s, and might have been influenced by Beatnik culture, too, since that was the first subculture where men started hair past their ears. Same thing with The Who; they based their look on 1960s mod. Boy George was part of the New Romantics scene, where people dressed in very flamboyant outfits.

Other acts had stylists who crafted their look. For example, Madonna worked closely with Gauthier to create her signature outfits (like the cone bra), and David Bowie worked with a designer (I forgot her name, but it might have been Viviene Westwood or someone who was part of the early glam scene in London).

All of this is not the same as what Gwen Stefani and Lady Gaga did, which was to cynically take looks verbatim from other acts or scenes they were never part of or didn't care about, and then pass themselves as being original and authentic expressions of that scene. Stefani was never truly a "riot grrrrl" (which is what the Tank Girl character was). She just saw that the riot grrrl trend in music and pop culture was really popular and just Tank Girl to pass herself off as one.

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Again, have you traveled, lived, studied the So. CA area, where Hollywood is a fraction of the population? It's fine to generalize sometimes since many generalizations are true, so I'm not really not nit-picking. I did not say EVERY generalization is a scam.
Great, you ran into "one lady" who said such and such.

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