Friday, February 27, 2009

Ashlee Simpson and The Punk Subculture

By Alex Pecklen

oung and talented singer Ashlee Simpson is well known as an admirer of punk fashion. She is the younger sister of Jessica Simpson and though they are very close these celebs are completely different. Ashlee Simpson likes such fashion designers as Vans, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, Louis Vuitton, Urban Outfitters, Free People, Balenciaga, Rich & Skinny and some others.

Her best loved casual style is edging the skater punk. Loose hooded sweatshirts, faded jeans and slip-on shoes are her common friends in the street. She is rarely seen dressed some other way, especially in her everyday life.

Over the last years punk fashion has been recovering from a quite long sleep and Ashlee Simpson was one of those celebs who chose this style and made it popular again. Punk fashion is nothing else but the way of dressing that reflects the punk subculture. As soon as the punk music was set up in the early seventies, it was obvious that fashion industry would follow it at once.

Vivienne Westwood was the one designer who showed the punk fashion to the world. She invented the punk style clothes and ran a little shop along with making clothes for such punk icons as Ramones and Sex Pistols. If you remember they dressed in some pretty vulgar clothes, various tattered jackets and studded jeans and preferred anarchy symbols accessories.

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 later, punk fashion went though some noticeable changes, with the shock factor remaining as the main goal. Then plaid skirts and ragged jeans, heavy combat boots, piercing and tattoos, Mohawks and spikes burst into punk fashion and streets.

These days the most popular sense of clothing is the Handmade. Since so many things have changed, the modern population of punks may be seen wearing simple tees and hoodies, though paying the respect to the original punk fashion of the seventies through various accessories and other details. - 16039

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