Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood is and always has been my favourite fashion designer. Known for introducing Modern punk fashion into mainstream fashion. Daring and challenging, she is the kind of designer I want to be.
Punk emerged in London in the 1970s as an anarchaic and aggressive movement. The clothes suited the lifestyle of those with limited cash due to unemployment and generally, low income school leavers or students. Imagine how the public looked at these people, due to their piercings in other places other than acceptable areas, resale clothes which were cut up and redecorated. I would think the impression they left was not very good. I myself went thru a punk phase when it came to fashion, and the reactions I got wasn't very good especially here in Singapore. So I think how Vivienne Westwood managed to make punk fashion mainstream was very admirable as it was not something someone would usually do.
She has appeared on the cover of "Tatler" magazine dressed as Margaret Thatcher (who was then the president), wearing a suit that was ordered for Thatcher which had not been delivered yet. And this infuriated Thatcher.
Pablo Picasso
Yes, Picasso is mainstream. But he DID break the rules after all. Drawing people in cubism was something he introduced. Afterall before Picasso introduced cubism, the artists in his period drew realistically, unlike Picasso wih dissected and misplaced parts of the human face in his works to a point where it looks almost grosteque in my opinion.
Hirohiko Araki
Hirohiko Araki is definitely my FAVOURTE comic artist in terms of drawing style and fashion sense. His drawings breaks the "unspoken rules" of mainstream natural beauty - slim body and natural hair. His artworks are full of muscles, colors, patterns and ridiculous yet gorgeous poses, colored lips, exotic hairstyles, regardless of gender. And he draws some very very weird interesting hairstyles too!
As much as the poses are weird and not what's "acceptable", Hirohiko makes it work well and look so good and possible with his characters! Because normally people wouldn't make such exaggerated poses and look good at the same time.
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