The Punk movement originated in music and street fashion. Crucially influential were anti-establishment music groups such as the Clash and the Sex Pistols whose controversially obscene TV interview in 1976 hit all the newspaper headlines. Also important were iconaclastic fashion designers like Vivienne Westwood and her associate Malcolm McLaren, the Sex Pistol's manager. Punk was born as an avant guarde music movement providing a swingingly relentless criticism of contemporary society. Through clothing, makeup and body ornamentation, it also stimulated a new form of hard-edged personal identity, reflecting this radical new anarchic departure.
Saturday, June 9, 2007
The punk jacket and clothes: The Punk movement originated in music and street fashion
The Punk movement originated in music and street fashion. Crucially influential were anti-establishment music groups such as the Clash and the Sex Pistols whose controversially obscene TV interview in 1976 hit all the newspaper headlines. Also important were iconaclastic fashion designers like Vivienne Westwood and her associate Malcolm McLaren, the Sex Pistol's manager. Punk was born as an avant guarde music movement providing a swingingly relentless criticism of contemporary society. Through clothing, makeup and body ornamentation, it also stimulated a new form of hard-edged personal identity, reflecting this radical new anarchic departure.
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