![]() Tight pants (be they leather or literal tights), big T-shirts (be they atheist or missing the "T"), and even makeup - love it or hate it, this was a definitive style.Īnd while that youth quake at 430 King's Road continued to spawn generations of new punky subcultures and vintage-store bins, McLaren set aside the brash look of his youth - which was wasn't really all that brash compared to his cohorts - to continually reinvent himself. Talk about big ideas: McLaren named his London store SEX, and, along with co-owner Vivienne Westwood, turned the boutique into the epicenter of Teddy Boy culture - a punk aesthetic that developed perhaps even faster than punk rock itself. This was, after all, the man who once said he singlehandedly invented punk rock - a disputed claim, to be sure, but there's little doubt that he did reinvent how to dress like a punk. And, outsize personality that he was, McLaren probably considered himself to be one, too. Sex Pistols manager and rock impresario Malcom McLaren, dead on Thursday at sixty-four, was considered by many - to be an icon of men's style. It’s only present in social animals that need to be together to optimise their chances of survival.Icons come in many shapes and sizes, but tends to be the operative idea. “Nature designed this sensory modality to increase our feelings of wellbeing in social environments. ![]() We know from the literature that lack of touch produces very negative consequences for our wellbeing,” says Alberto Gallace, a neuroscientist at the University of Milano-Bicocca, in the feature. “Without touch, humans deteriorate physically and emotionally. It’s a sentiment that Sirin Kale wrote about in an article for Wired titled, Skin hunger helps explain your desperate longing for human touch. “I think people do miss hugging and when things go back to normal, there’s going to be a massive rise in that,” says Patti Wood, a body language expert based in Atlanta. Instead, many are opting for elbow taps (obviously) and footshakes (us neither). Handshakes, hugs, fist-pumps… Most gestures to greet one another include touch, which when you’re in the middle of an infectious pandemic is not ideal. Holly Friend, senior foresight writer at The Future Laboratory believes: “In a future occupied by remote working, infrequent socialising and a revaluing of the home, loungewear will continue to become the norm, so much so that any stigma attached to the category will dissipate and may instead become attached to the act of ‘dressing up’.” That being said, just because something’s elasticated doesn’t mean it can’t be stylish. ![]() Moreover, the fashion industry is responding to the shift, with ready-to-wear brands like Zara releasing entire lines of home-wear, and couture brands like Dries Van Noten releasing their own iterations (with slightly different price tags, mind). In fact, according to global fashion shopping platform Lyst, in April global searches for joggers grew 123 per cent compared to the same time last year, with gender-neutral brand Les Girls Les Boys reporting a 1000 per cent increase in sales on tracksuits over the same period. With no reason to dress up, most of us have spent 2020 in our slobbies.
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