"Fashion Pack" is a song by French singer Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist....

 released in 1979 by Ariola Records

Ariola Records

Ariola Records is a German record label. As of the late 1980s, it was a subsidiary label of BMG which in turn has since become a part of the international media conglomerate Sony Music Entertainment...

.

Song information

"Fashion Pack" was released as the second single off Never Trust a Pretty Face

Never Trust a Pretty Face

Never Trust a Pretty Face is the third studio album by French singer Amanda Lear, released in January, 1979 by West German label Ariola-Eurodisc...

in early 1979. "Black Holes" from the same album made the B-side on most of the single releases. The song was a collaboration between Anthony Monn

Anthony Monn

Anthony Monn a.k.a. Tony Monn is a German singer, composer, and record producer.Monn started his career as a singer in the German schlager genre in the early 1970s...

, who composed the music and produced the track, and Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist....

, the author of the lyrics. Musically, "Fashion Pack" is a typical upbeat track of the disco

Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...

 era. The lyrics captured the feel of disco eminence of the late 1970s, telling about the legendary Manhattan

Manhattan

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-based Studio 54

Studio 54

Studio 54 was a highly popular discotheque from 1977 until 1991, located at 254 West 54th Street in Manhattan, New York, USA. It was originally the Gallo Opera House, opening in 1927, after which it changed names several times, eventually becoming a CBS radio and television studio. In 1977 it...

 (which was the reason for the "Studio 54" subtitle on the single cover). Lear also mentioned in the song a number of celebrities who were Studio 54's regular attendees, such as Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

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, Margaux Hemingway

Margaux Hemingway

Margaux Hemingway was an American fashion model and actress.- Early life :Margot Louise Hemingway was born in Portland, Oregon, and was the older sister of actress Mariel Hemingway and the granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway...

, Liza Minnelli

Liza Minnelli

Liza May Minnelli is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of singer and actress Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli....

 or Bianca Jagger

Bianca Jagger

Bianca Jagger is a Nicaraguan-born social and human rights advocate and a former actress and model...

. Names of Vogue

Vogue (magazine)

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, Interview

Interview (magazine)

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and Ritz

Ritz Newspaper

Ritz Newspaper, colloquially Ritz Magazine, sometimes simply Ritz, was a British magazine focusing on gossip, celebrity and fashion. It was launched in 1976 by David Bailey and David Litchfield, who acted as co-editors. Published on newsprint and described by Litchfield as "the Lou Reed of...

magazines appear here as well as names of trendy French venues Maxim's

Maxim's Paris

Maxim's is the name of a restaurant in Paris, France, located at No. 3 of the rue Royale. It is known for its art nouveau interior decor.-History:...

 and Chez Régine. The lyrics also refer to Yves Saint Laurent, "travolting

John Travolta

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" and haute couture

Haute couture

Haute couture refers to the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing. Haute couture is made to order for a specific customer, and it is usually made from high-quality, expensive fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finished by the most experienced and capable seamstresses,...

. The song met with success and remains one of Amanda Lear's biggest hits to date.

Re-recordings

Amanda Lear has re-recorded "Fashion Pack" twice in her later career. An "updated" version has made a release on her 1993 dance album Cadavrexquis

Cadavrexquis

Cadavrexquis is the teenth studio album by French singer Amanda Lear, first released in France 1993 on label Chène Music. This including her European comeback dance hit "Fantasy" plus updated versions of three of her hits from the seventies, her signature tune "Follow Me", "Fashion Pack " and "Lili...

. It doesn't mention most of the stars from the 1979 original and replaces their names with the likes of Madonna

Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...

, Elton John

Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...

 and Naomi Campbell

Naomi Campbell

Naomi Campbell is a British model. Scouted at the age of 15, she established herself among the top three most recognisable and in-demand models of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and she was one of six models of her generation declared "supermodels" by the fashion world...

. It also drops any connotations to Studio 54

Studio 54

Studio 54 was a highly popular discotheque from 1977 until 1991, located at 254 West 54th Street in Manhattan, New York, USA. It was originally the Gallo Opera House, opening in 1927, after which it changed names several times, eventually becoming a CBS radio and television studio. In 1977 it...

.

In 1998 Lear made another remake of the song, for the Back in Your Arms

Back in Your Arms

Back In Your Arms is the third compilation album by French singer Amanda Lear, released in May 1998 by Dig It Int'l. The release follows her two previous greatest hits albums, Ieri, Oggi released in Italy, and Poet Amanda Lear released in the former U.S.S.R....

album, which saw her revisiting her disco-era hits. That version retained the original lyrics.

Spanish singer Pedro Marín

Pedro Marín

Pedro Marín is a Spanish pop singer, actor and TV performer.-Biography:Marín débuted on the popular music scene in Spain as a teen idol in the early 1980s with hits such as "Que no" and "Aire." He was the first Spanish artist to work with synthesisers and electronic instruments being a reference...

 covered the song on his 2006 record Diamonds, a tribute album

Tribute album

A tribute album is a recorded collection of cover versions of songs or instrumental compositions. Its concept may be either various artists making a tribute to a single artist, a single artist making a tribute to various artists, or a single artist making a tribute to another single artist.There...

 including interpretations of chosen Amanda Lear's tracks.

Track listing

• 7" Single (1979)

A. "Fashion Pack" - 4:23

B. "Black Holes" - 5:00

• Japanese 7" Single (1979)

A. "Fashion Pack" - 3:37

B. "Lili Marleen" - 4:40

• German 12" Single (1979)

A. "Fashion Pack" - 5:10

B. "Black Holes" - 5:06

• Italian 12" Single (1979)

A. "Fashion Pack" - 5:09

B. "Lili Marleen" - 4:45

• Russian 7" Single (1981)

A. "Реклама вокруг нас" ("Fashion Pack")

B. "Забудь это" ("Forget It")

Chart performance

Chart	Peak position
Germany Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...	24
Netherlands Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...	50
Italy Federation of the Italian Music Industry The Federation of the Italian Music Industry is an umbrella organization that keeps track of virtually all aspects of the music recording industry in Italy....	26
Sweden Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....	13