From the Beginning, Punk Rock has been all About the Fashion

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!