Spring fashion trends: Leather, spikes and torn fishnets of punk trend

Spring fashion trends

Spring fashion trends leather, spikes and torn fishnets—a look back at punk's
wild influence on fashion.

Versace Leather, spikes and torn fishnets of punk trend

WHEN THE SEX PISTOLS BURST ONTO THE SCENE IN 1976, THEIR SPITTING
anarchist anthems were the antithesis of high fashion, lint these (lays, a studded
leather motorcycle jacket is as covet-worthy as a designer bag.

This May. the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York shines the spotlight on thisrebel-
lious movement with its latest Costume Institute exhibition, Punk: Chaos to Couture. In its
early days. British punk rock hands like The Clash forced safety pins through leather while
Pitti Smith, The Ramones and Blondie's Debbie I lam holed 11 pal New York's legendary dive
bar CBGB in tattered T-shirts and ripped jeans as a protest against the city's glitzy disco scene.

 Spring fashion trends

Designer Vivienne West wood's punk roots also run deep—in 1976 she cultivated
many of this era's DIY hallmarks at her London boutique, Seditionaries. which she
owned with then-boyfriend, visual artist and Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren.

The duos endlessly creative takes on rebellion helped shape the unofficial punk uni-
form, with reappropriated patriotic symbols including Queen Elizabeth IIs face and
the Union Jack. The movement's raw aesthetic gained mainstream appeal in 1977, when
British designer Zandra Rhodes used exposed seams, strategic rips and bondage-like
accents on her floor-length dresses.

Balmain 2011 Leather, spikes and torn fishnets of punk trend

Today, the punk fashion trend continues to be a source of inspiration for ready -to-wear designers
like  Jean Paul Gaultier. Comme des Garcons Rei Kawakubo and Givenchys RiccardoTisci.
The once-radical notion of safety pin embellishment has been reinterpreted so many times,
most notably by Gianui Versace in 1994 that it has become a fashion trends mainstay, while holes
and fabric deconstruction are considered a trademarks of contemporary labels like Rodarte.

Christopher Kane spring 2013 Leather, spikes and torn fishnets of punk trend

This spring, punk's fashion trends DIY logo T-shirts have been given a modern twist at 3.1 Phillip lain, Christopher Kane and Acne. And judging by fall's lineup of sliced and diced leather looks
and thick-soled black boots, punk continues to rock on in fashion trends.

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