Vivienne Westwood brought punk to fashion and started a movement that lives on to this day
The Sex Pistols with their manager Malcolm McLaren signing a new contract with A&M Records, outside Buckingham Palace in March 1977. The contract was terminated after one week.But the leather jacket, I would say, became popular because of the Ramones. When the Ramones had their first tour of England, in 1976they wore leather jackets. And then when they came back the following year on their second tour, all of the kids who were in the front at the shows now had formed their own bands.
These kids, they’re not being influenced by the internet obviously; they’re being influenced by whatever was happening that weekend. Let’s say they go to a punk show on a Saturday, and then maybe they go back to high school. Maybe that week they meet up with their friends and figure out how to look punk. And so then the next time they go to a show, they’re dressed even more outrageous.
Yeah. That’s a tough one. Personally, I’ve never been comfortable with the punk look involving swastikas. It’s shock value, but when you explain that to somebody who’s not into punk, they’re just not going to get it and you’re shocking in the wrong way. It’s kind of unfortunate that that whole punk movement went towards the swastika at the beginning. I do know that the swastika was used by British Hells Angels, like Lemmy [Kilmister, later of Motörhead].
I would say one of the biggest influences that came out of the early punk look, the Sex store, and the Sex Pistols was, just the T-shirt in general — the T-shirt as a way to express your identity, and the T-shirt as a do-it-yourself piece of clothing. I think one could probably attribute gaudy jewelry. I mean, Sid Vicious wore a padlock, and a lot of these budding punks wore chains on their clothing. They would fasten small chains to their blazers, chains, maybe instilling a bit of fear into someone that ran into a punk on the street. Safety pins, also instilling a little bit of fear into the public.
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