Punk's Influence on Mainstream Fashion
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The most stylistic elements of punk (the "do it yourself" style creations) such as studded jackets, torn jeans, where the easiest elements exploit.
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Vivienne Westwood's designs fed back directly into the comercial market, intergrating the punk aesthetic into the society's culture.
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All these pieces of Westwood's are now created for the world of high fashion and a worth far more than the ideology of punk would allow. This is an example of "the commodity form" of intergration.
by James