Puma Suede
The first luxury-material sneaker wasn’t aspirational—it was tactical.
Protest
Pressure applied from outside the institutions.
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Katharine Hamnett
A T-shirt that speaks louder than its wearer—and was never meant to be worn quietly.
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.
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Fendi
Fendi is an Italian luxury fashion house, founded in Rome in 1925 as a fur and leather shop.
Nylon
Wallace Carothers · 1935
Nylon is a family of synthetic thermoplastics characterised by amide linkages, melt-processed into fibres, films and moulded shapes. Wallace Carothers made the first one at DuPont in 1935, and women's stockings made it famous. Pure nylon's weaknesses in clothing led to blends with cotton, polyester and spandex, and pure nylon is now rarely used.
Patagonia
Patagonia, Inc. is an American outdoor clothing company founded by Yvon Chouinard in 1973 and based in Ventura, California.
Sportswear
Sportswear is a style of dress rooted in athletic clothing, built on relaxed, practical separates, and an American fashion tradition that grew into a global genre.