DIRTY LOOKS AT THE BARBICAN
Fashion is synonymous with glitz and glamour, the things I generally detest. I got into it for the dirt; Trent Reznor rolling around in leather and fishnets in the mud at Woodstock, Hussein Chalayan burying his graduate collection with iron filings in a friend’s back yard, Carpe Diem and its arte povera look, Martin Margiela making something out of nothing, what Rick Owens called “glunge” early on in his career.