Punkouture - Fashioning a Revolt

Title: Punkouture: Fashioning a Revolt 1976 - 1986
Author: Matteo Torcinovich

Language: English
256 pages, Hardcover
20.32cm x 24.89cm x 2.29cm
ISBN: 978-3-943330-34-2

Punkouture is an illustrated guide divided into different thematic sections: clothing, hair, make-up, footwear, accessories, trademarks and shops. A stunning international catwalk displaying and reconstructing everything that has ever been sewn together in punk style. including designs by BOY, Vivienne Westwood, Fiorucci, Shelly’s just to name a few.

Punk aimed to be a brutal attack to the middle class. They said that to be punk you just had to wear all that was ugly and combine it in the most absurd way: jailed pants and leather braces, straitjackets with chain belts and buckles in abundance, pants made with bags for garbage, leather pants, ripped fishnet tights, tattered skirts held together by huge safety pins and masking tape…