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C/FC/49. Punk fashion and social identity

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2000
DATE:
2009
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29.99 GBP

The paper examines the relationship between the Punk movement of the seventies and the construction of social identity analysing the designs by Vivienne Westwood, discussing how they expressed the deconstructive nature of Punk and what her motifs and slogans symbolised to the seventies' culture. It is argued that social identity can be formed by the cloths one wears, but does not depend upon it.

 

KEYWORDS: Vivienne Westwood, style, fashion, clothing, Punk, seventies,

 
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