She disputed the notion that there was one ’80s style. For her, she said, the joy of the ’80s was the freedom to dabble in many: rockabilly one day, new wave the next. Think of 1980s icons who piled on vintage and secondhand looks with reckless abandon, women like Cyndi Lauper (who, by the way, is still touring the nation, with Boy George in tow).

“I think that there are very strong different points of view, like we had in the ’80s,” she said. “I feel that something of this spirit is coming back.”

Echt 1980s boutique Giorgio Beverly Hills may be no more — nor its impresario, Fred Hayman, who died last week — but Barneys New York took a step back toward its 1980s moment. Its 17th Street women’s store, opened in 1986 connected to its formerly coed Seventh Avenue brother, was a destination for ’80s fashion plates looking for Alaïa, Montana and Gaultier, and the site of a charity fashion show and auction of denim jackets in 1986 to raise funds for AIDS research.

The Chelsea store closed in 1997, replaced by a Madison Avenue outpost. The Madison shop remains, but Barneys is back on Seventh Avenue. (A charity fashion show and auction of leather jackets, a callback to the 1986 original, was planned for the March opening, this time supporting White Columns gallery and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center; when the fashion show was scuppered because of space constraints, the auction was held online instead.)

Look around, and the spirit crops up everywhere. You can take your ’80s at the movies, whether sporting, as in Richard Linklater’s “Everybody Wants Some!!” or swooning, as in “Once” director John Carney’s “Sing Street,” about would-be Dubliner rockers agog over Duran Duran.

You can take it on TV (or whatever streaming device has replaced your TV): on CNN, a seven-part documentary series, “The Eighties,” began on March 31; on Netflix, Winona Ryder (breakout star of “Beetlejuice” in 1988) stars in “Stranger Things,” a thriller billed as “a love letter to the ’80s classics that captivated a generation,” which will debut July 15.