![]() 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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