Title: Punk Style /
Authors: Sklar, Monica,
Date: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic,
Physical description: 173 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Abstract: Punk Style examines the dress of this incredibly diverse, long-lasting and hugely influential subculture and its impact on mainstream fashion. Taking a comprehensive approach, the book includes a historical overview, a discussion of motivations behind dress practices, and a review of fashion cycles and merchandising methods. Punk is frequently positioned as a forerunner of trends that later become commonplace, as demonstrated in the proliferation and acceptance of body modification, the repeated use of deconstruction as a design aesthetic, and the recent boom in fashion that reflects DIY style.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- Subcultural Style Today -- Introducing Punk Style -- The Iconic Punk Style: Truth and Fiction -- Background Literature -- Previous Research on Subculture and Dress -- The Literature: Punk's Time to Get Attention in Fashion Research -- The Literature: Fashion Needs to Get Attention in Punk Research -- Methodology for This Book -- An Insider's Perspective -- Conclusions -- 2.Punk Style Past and Present -- What Is Punk Style? -- Punk by Wearer Definition -- Aesthetic Components of Punk Style -- Thematic Components of Punk Style -- The Origins of Punk Style -- Precedents and Influencers of Punk Style -- Where It Would Go: Diversity and the Development of Subgenres -- Conclusions -- 3.Punk Style Motivations and Explanations -- Why a Person Might Choose Punk Styles -- Expression of Identity -- Loss of Individual Identity in Contemporary Society -- Being Part of a Subcultural Community -- Postmodern Personalization of Dress -- Contents note continued: Communicating "Punk" through Dress -- Aesthetics, Iconography, and Identity: Communication -- Expressive and Referential Characteristics -- Symbolic Interaction: Communication -- Social Meanings -- The Viewer -- Punk Style and Context -- Negotiations Regarding Appearances -- Conclusions -- 4.Punk Style and Society -- How a Look Becomes Punk -- Making Is Power: Power Is Negotiated -- The Humanity in DIY -- Merchandising Punk Style -- The Diffusion of Punk Style -- Routes to Obtain Punk Style -- Rejection of Mainstream Distribution Channels -- Gender Issues and Politics through Punk Production and Consumption -- The Results of Punk Style Traveling through Fashion Channels -- Punk Style and Its Relationship to Street Style -- Punk Style and Its Relationship to High Fashion -- Dress Up and Dress Down in Punk Style -- Positive Aspects of Punk Style's Impact -- Negative Aspects of Punk Style's Impact -- Reinvention of Punk Style -- Contents note continued: Widespread Diffusion Creates Conflict over Meaning -- Conclusions -- 5.Summary of Punk Style -- Iconic Punk Styles -- Homage, Cues, and Context as Part of Identity Building -- Levels of Commitment -- Motivations for Wearing Punk Dress -- A Group Experience and an Individual Experience -- Postmodernism and Globalization as Influences on Contemporary Dress -- Is Punk Style Still Extreme? -- Punk Identity Salience and Negotiation of Appearances -- Where Can Punk Style Continue to Go? -- Closing.
Subject headings (LCSH): Fashion; Fashion--Social aspects.; Punk culture.; Subculture--20th century.