Dancers, as symbols of the decadent past, were among those most at risk.
A decade ago Mr Bowie vowed, to the dismay of many fans, that he was drawing a line under his gloriously decadent past.
For years the period was underplayed in the history taught to schoolchildren, as the new Turkish Republic created by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923 sought to break with a decadent past.
But Vienna is not only home to glorious buildings and decadent pasts, it is also the city of the avant-gardes, of Klimt and Kokoschka, Einstein and Freud.
To her faultless cutting and penchant for perfection, Ms. Herrera added tweaks of the imagination, a hint of the 1940s and of the old Orient, offering a perfume of a decadent Chinese past.
In one of several versions of The Purification Of The Temple, painted in Rome in the early 1570s, he portrays Michelangelo, Titian and Raphael among the money-changers, as if he were consigning the Renaissance greats to a decadent, impure past.
It is to be vulnerable to the world when the world believes itself invulnerable, to understand its mutability when it thinks itself immutable, to sense what's coming before others sense it, to know that the barbarian future is tearing down the gates of the present while others cling to the decadent, hollow past.
Echoing those decadent days past with a nouveau twist, Johnson's latest collection danced down the catwalk, a swirl of Swarovski crystals oozing with Art Deco touches.
According to this view, the past decadent decade will give way to a new era of thrift, reminiscent of the strait-laced 1950s.Will American consumers pick up where they left off two years ago, or 50 years ago?
This trend continued during the rule of Mao Zedong, when Confucianism was dismissed as a decadent part of China's "feudal past".[27] However, interest in Mencius continued in Hong Kong and Taiwan as part of the movement known as New Confucianism.
For radical Islamists it is not just Europe but also America that is decadent and of the past.
