Free shipping on all orders over $50

Tag: Leaving The 20th Century

1970s

Rare film: Malcolm McLaren on how to make subversive trousers

To celebrate today’s opening of the exhibition Eyes For Blowing Up Bridges: Joining The Dots From The Situationist International To Malcolm McLaren, this rare footage of McLaren talking about the genesis of the bondage trousers design has been issued by the Malcolm McLaren Estate through Dazed Digital. The film is entitled Subversive Trousers and is […]

September 26, 2015
1970s

Anarchist, Situationist + Yippie texts + an army munitions handbook: Fashion graduate Imogen Hunt unearths the radical roots of Seditionaries’ incendiary Vive le Rock/Punk Rock Disco design

//Front and back of Vive le Rock/Punk Rock Disco and the radical political and military texts used as source material for the design// There were T-shirts left over from the Wembley Rock & Roll revival festival in our cupboards in South Clapham; we had to do something with them. Sid Vicious liked them just the […]

August 6, 2015
430 King's Road

Blessed & Blasted: Roots of the Anarchy Shirt part 3

This composition of images by Derek Harris from Christopher Gray’s Situationist text Leaving The 20th Century makes plain the significance of the visual vocabulary of the 60s anarchist movement on punk in general and Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood’s Anarchy Shirt in particular.

March 3, 2011