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.

She prefers casual street style in her everyday life, usually wearing denim sere jeans, skater punk style hooded sweatshirts and slip-on shoes or sneakers.

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.

Famous British designer Vivienne Westwood has actually invented punk style and thus she influenced punk fashion like nobody else. Punk fashion at that times consisted of vulgar clothes, studded jeans and tattered jackets, disputable images and various anarchy symbols all over.

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.

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. - 15615

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