Friday, February 27, 2009

Ashlee Simpson and The Punk Subculture

By Alex Pecklen

Young American singer Ashlee Simpson became quite famous over the last five years. She is Jessica Simpsons younger sister and though both celebs took up singing, I think Ashlee has succeeded much more than her elder sister. These celebrities are very different in their style as well. Thus Ashlee Simpson worships punk fashion and among her most loved designers are Alexander McQueen, Vans, Marc Jacobs, Urban Outfitters, Free People and others, while Jessica prefers glamour fashion and style.

Most of all Ashlee Simpson enjoys comfortable clothes with the skater punk trend. She is usually seen in tight, denim faded jeans, loose hooded sweatshirts and slip-on shoes.

Ashlee Simpson was one of the celebs who made punk fashion popular once more. Since the punk music has been established in the very early seventies, the punk fashion was growing more and more popular and represented the style of dressing within the limits of the punk subculture. The fashion industry simply couldnt avoid the punk music and culture and followed with the punk style clothes, shoes and accessories.

Some say Vivienne Westwood has only influenced the punk fashion, but regarding her BBC interview, she actually has invented the punk clothing style at the time of Sex Pistols and made all the clothes this legendary band was wearing. Their fashion style was tattered jeans and jackets, studded T-shirts covered with anarchy symbols and controversial images and other vulgar clothing.

Then the bondage style burst into punk fashion with its leather and heavy chain straps, corduroy pants and conic jeans. It also affected the hairstyles, which were bright color dyed hair with aggressive sets then.

Ten years after that, the punk style became revolutionized and at that period most people were wearing combat boots, heavy chains, tattered jeans or plaid skirts and of course Mohawks and liberty spikes.

Today, so many things have changed. And although the general population of punk subculture followers prefer modern punk fashion and usually wear simple T-shirts and hoodies, the Do It Yourself clothing style is hosting the todays fashion ball. But the original punk look back in the seventies will remain in the heart of every punk. - 16755

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