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  • Faust
    kitsch killer
    • Sep 2006
    • 37852

    Punk is not dead....



    ...it's just fake.



    I found the below quite entertaining [86] and twisted and ironic in many, many ways.



    Artist Damien Hirst so considers punk clothing art that he paid $160,000 for a collection of it for his museum. Unfortunately, Sex Pistols founder Malcolm McLaren has declared it all fake, and he should know: He created the originals with designer Vivienne Westwood.



    Hirst,
    most famous for his installations of sliced cows and tiger sharks
    floating in formaldehyde, bought garments he thought were from the
    couple's 1970s shop Sex & Seditionaries, from Simon Easton, owner of risque site Punkpistol.com. But when McLaren went to Hirst's house, he had bad news.



    "I
    felt terrible, but they were fakes," McLaren told us. "Seeing these
    clothes, I said, 'Wow, they've gone to great lengths to manufacture the
    labels, and distress the fabrics.' But clearly they were not the
    fabrics we used 35 years ago, and the stitching was totally different.
    And there were bags and bags, big black bags of them. We simply didn't
    make that many. I mean, we literally made these clothes on my kitchen
    floor. They were each unique."



    Hirst, whose mother used to cut up
    his own punk clothing and who once melted his Sex Pistols album to make
    a fruit bowl, is under a gag order about the situation. But word has
    spread, and yesterday, a curator at Christie's called McLaren, asking him to authenticate 70 punk garments they'll put up for auction come the fall.



    The punk progenitor wants to protect collectors from phony merch, "from the kid in Englewood Cliffs who buys a fake God Save the Queen T-shirt to museums," McLaren told us.



    He's
    notified the fine-art publisher Rizzoli to excise his essay from the
    upcoming book, "Punk Couture: Clothes for Heroes," if Easton has
    anything to do with it. A Rizzoli spokeswoman said the respected house
    was on the case.



    Easton insists that "absolutely everything my
    clients have purchased [is] authentic. ... McLaren actually had very
    little input in the design [of the clothes]. ... He will rewrite
    history on a daily basis. ... [He] has less knowledge about these
    clothes than the people who collect them."



    Hirst, the world's highest-paid artist, e-mailed McLaren: "It's a shocking story."



    Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

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  • BECOMING-INTENSE
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2008
    • 1868

    #2
    Re: Punk is not dead....

    If I had been in McLaren shoes, I would have laughed so hard, seeing Hirst's face when he got the bad news. This is very entertaining! [74]
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    • justine
      Senior Member
      • Jan 2007
      • 672

      #3
      Re: Punk is not dead....

      This is interesting. I almost pulled the trigger on an old Seditionaire at Bess (spell?, where the old Pop Shop used to be near A)...I wonder if those are real.

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      • AKA*NYC
        Senior Member
        • Nov 2007
        • 3007

        #4
        Re: Punk is not dead....



        [quote user="justine"]This is interesting. I almost pulled the trigger on an old Seditionaire at Bess (spell?, where the old Pop Shop used to be near A)...I wonder if those are real.[/quote]



        What were they asking out of curiosity? There's a weird consignment store down the street from me that's selling a VW SEX label t-shirt for like $900. This figure now sounds cheaper than it did before the LUC collection dropped two days ago.

        LOVE THE SHIRST... HOW much?

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        • justine
          Senior Member
          • Jan 2007
          • 672

          #5
          Re: Punk is not dead....

          [quote user="AKA*NYC"]What were they asking out of curiosity?[/quote]around $500 iirc

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          • deleuze
            Senior Member
            • Jul 2007
            • 418

            #6
            Re: Punk is not dead....

            A few months ago there was a bunch of Seditionary stuff being sold on Ebay by an auction house. I think the cheapest item was a t-shirt for like $750.

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            • Chinorlz
              Senior Member
              • Sep 2006
              • 6422

              #7
              Re: Punk is not dead....

              there was some up just now from a seller promising the tees to be legit.... around $300ish each.
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              Merz (5/22/09):"i'm a firm believer that the ultimate prevailing logic in design is 'does shit look sick as fuck' "

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              • Avantster
                ¤¤¤
                • Sep 2006
                • 1983

                #8
                Re: Punk is not dead....



                Hilarious, thanks Faust.





                $160K? Psh, Hirst just needs to sell two pairs of his super awesome psychedelic jeans.




                let us raise a toast to ancient cotton, rotten voile, gloomy silk, slick carf, decayed goat, inflamed ram, sooty nelton, stifling silk, lazy sheep, bone-dry broad & skinny baffalo.

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