![]() ![]() Kurt’s plaid shirt and baggy jeans has become a models-off-duty uniform for the likes of Cara Delevingne, and even today’s musicians are borrowing from the look- Sky Ferreira and her boyfriend, Diiv frontman Zachary Cole Smith are seemingly a modern mirror to Kurt and Courtney, and Lorde is valiantly carrying the torch as the anti-pop princess in her own rabble-rousing feminist way. Raf Simons created an entire series of blossoming prints for his menswear collection last spring inspired by the floral dresses Cobain wore. ** Hedi Slimane’**s fall 2013 collection for Saint Laurent was an unabashed ode to grunge, with superluxurious renditions of tattered mohair sweaters and faux-fur coats that could have fallen straight off Cobain's back. In disheveled jeans and floral frocks, he softened the tough exterior of the archetypal rebel from the inside out, and set the ball in motion for a radical, millennial idea of androgyny.įlash forward two decades, and that free-spirited approach to dressing still has legs. It was completely counter to the shellacked, flashy aesthetic of the 1980s in every way. Cobain pulled liberally from both ends of a woman’s and a man's wardrobe, and his Seattle thrift-store look ran the gamut of masculine lumberjack workwear and 40s-by-way-of-70s feminine dresses. As Nirvana’s frontman, Kurt Cobain, who died 20 years ago this past weekend, was at the epicenter of grunge, a movement that revolutionized the cultural landscape of the 1990s, and one that continues to reverberate in fashion and music today. ![]() Yet there is one perennial style icon of our times who has been referenced by designers more than most in recent years-and that she happens to be a he. ![]() The roll call of muses in fashion's pantheon is by and large an exclusive and tightly edited list.
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