From
those infamous safety pinned bondage trousers, to the brash and
openly offensive slogan T-shirts that made punk instantly iconic,
punk rock became as much of a style icon as it did for it's loud and
carefree approach to music.
Punk may
be well known for being strongly anti-fashion, but it's become a
style all of it's own. It may have made waves across the music scene
for it's brash, in your face attitude and loud, ear drum shattering
tones, but with that attitude came a unique, DIY approach to style,
that would come to shape alternative fashion as we know it today.
Punk rock fashion was in part helped along by the iconic figures heralding
the punk scene, and with stylish figures like Jordan and Siouxsie
Sioux making DIY chic look instantly glamourous, punk rock clothing
soon followed, thanks to entrepreneurial figures like Malcolm
McLaren, who teamed up with Vivienne Westwood to open their iconic
fashion boutique, Sex.
Their
shop was at the heart of the punk scene in London, and everyone who
was anyone was sure to be seen there, wearing their iconic punk rock
outfits, from deliberately offensive slogan tops, to bondage
trousers. Punk may have had an attitude, but it certainly had a
fashionable wardrobe, thanks to these two figureheads who came to
shape the punk look as we know it today.
Punk was
and still is all about expressing yourself, no outfit was out of
bounds, and every look imaginable was explored. If you liked it, you
wore it, and you didn't care what anyone thought about it. It's this
brash, carefree attitude that makes punk so iconic as a style.
It may
have been all about the attitude and the music at first, but punk was
certainly all about the fashion, and the freedom to express yourself
as you pleased!
