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Originally Posted by sweet_nothing
The real brains for Punk fashion in the U.K. came from Vivienne Westwood and John Lydon and to some lesser extent Malcom. Malcom
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It wasn't though.
That image came out of the whole art school thing. People seem to forget McLaren & Westwood wern't selling that kind of thing back then. They were selling sex clothes & bondage gear. They saw what was happening in the art schools & did that. They didn't create it they were just the first ones to sell it.
There's a great quote in Lydons book where he ridicules Westwood & McLaren saying that anyone who was into that whole art school thing didn't buy their clothes from those two because they couldn't afford them anyway , and the whole reason the ripped clothes & bondage gear thing became known was because it was from middle class kids who could afford to buy stuff from McLarens Sex shop jumping on the bandwagon thinking that was the 'punk' look.