Matteo Guarnaccia

Beginning with rockabilly, moving on to folk music, sliding over to electric, and falling into a psychedelic phase, like a chameleon Bob Dylan has changed his skin repeatedly over the years, juggling his image with apparent ease and subverting the prevailing social and aesthetic models each time. His Supro guitar and the leather jacket – […]

For the duration of his career, David Bowie kept away from scripts imposed by others, choosing, for better or for worse, to write his own story of his life. From the Sixties until his death in 2016, he created a series of fictional figures, imagining them in full, designing, and translating them on stage, giving […]

In spite of nihilist radicalness and its prophetic promise of “No Future”, punk did guarantee a future to the fashion system by putting forward myriad new ideas. It ritualised violence, its visual terrorism was transformed into a successful sartorial stereotype.  The Punk Playbook invites you to play punk by colouring in, cutting, pasting, and putting […]