PUNK is in the air - and there's no getting away from it right now. "There's the huge exhibition on at the Costume Institute of the Met in New York. As a movement it's a great legacy of fashion and you can see it everywhere," saysVogue fashion editor Francesca Burns, who reimagined it circa 2013 for the "Pretty Vacant" fashion shoot in theMay issue of Vogue. "I've always been very interested in it, I love rebellion in fashion," she says of the inception of her idea - the execution of which she found in the spring/summer 2013shows courtesy of Christopher Kane and his gaffer-taped dresses, all thick black strands to pin into place jewels on his sugary sweet creations.
"The idea was always to keep it feeling relevant. We're talking about luxury items, high luxury, re-appropriated into punk ideas," notes Burns, pointing out that what we saw on the catwalk was so far removed from punk in the traditional sense yet so tapped into its sensibilities and mentalities.
"You could even see it at Alexander McQueen with the perforated grandeur and Rodarte in the lace and evenCeline in the string vests," she recalls.
Models Stella Tennant and Guinevere Van Seenus are photographed by Paolo Roversi for the shoot, accompanied by a piece from Susan Irvine in which she asks whether the movement has lost its spirit.
"Roversi's pictures make it all look so beautiful and then Stella is androgynous and with Guinevere there is a softness. It's great to be able to celebrate a huge fashion moment and it's a great moment for punk in Vogue," says Burns.
Buy the May issue of Vogue to see the shoot in full and see highlights from the issue here.
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