For my mood board looking at a specific fashion era/movement, I chose to research Punk.
Punk was indeed a fashion movement; yet it had greater impact on the Western popular culture: from music, to politics, to graphics. However the actual hardcore Punk movement, lasted merely thirty months from the summer of 1975 to January 1978 and was centered mainly in London.
Many of the adolescent punks created this unusual look which managed to communicate the pain and anguish of lost adolescence. The look was centred upon self-mutilation, damaged and asexual clothing, a violent rejection of prettiness and naturalness. Anything that would typically annoy adults would be used - from the sexual bad taste (the "used" condom or tampon) to the cheapness (the black bin bag or safety pins.
Inspired by teenagers that flocked to Seditionaries, Vivienne Westwood managed to harness this unbridled creativity by taking mass-produced every day objects and tailoring them into a punk uniform... the Bondage Suit. This consisted of bondage pants, a parachute shirt hung with four straps attached with D-ring, a t-shirt sloganeer with obscenity, a mohair jumper and multi-buckled bondage boots.
Punk was a powerful birth of a powerful partnership between music and fashion, it met the youths' demands for a look modelled on their pop idols and music preferences.
The key players i found for this specific fashion movement were...
artists/musicians: The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Patti Smith, Joy Division
Photographers: Steven Meisel, Erica Echenberg, Ray Stevenson
Designers: Jean Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood
Stylists: Grace Coddington
Celebrities: Madonna
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