Helsinki Twilight 1984 takes us back in time into the fascinating period of time between the years 1979 - 1985, when Helsinki, and the rest of Finland moved towards an increasingly diverse and free social climate, pioneering beautiful boys in makeup and fancy girls.

During this time, the new street-level phenomena such as small magazines, pirate radio and independent fashion began to blend into the society – new clubs were set up, new art forms were born - and finally people felt they were works of art themselves.

Helsinki was like Berlin between the wars for a period that lasted for no longer than a blink. It was full of ideas, encounters between different groups of people and 24h partying with the Cold War and what George Orwell's 1984 had described hovering on the background.

Dark, deep shades, ominous music, 'pale boys', vampires and other creatures of the night represented a world of a new human being; New Romantics, new Gothic - new vision. Representing the birth of the European, international, and ultimately universal people.