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Punk fashion

Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood’s punk fashion was a targeted assault on British cultural authority — materially crude, politically charged, and commercially savvy. It succeeded in making dissent wearable. It failed when its symbols were stripped of context and sold back as style.