On display at the Villa Medici a collection of unpublished images even on punk culture, and fashion is no exception to ' aesthetic influence 
London, 1977. Ridges colored leather pants and ripped jeans, safety pins on clothing but also on the skin: these are the symbols of the punk collective imagination. As symbols are the Sex Pistols, who, with their bands and music inspired legions of fans with a look of impact, created by Malcolm McLaren Vivienne Westwood and . 
A little 'less well known is the relationship between the movement and the visual arts, which is now being investigated in the exhibition Europunk, the French Academy in Rome. The retrospective brings together for the first time a wide selection of works by illustrators and graphic designers who, rejecting the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating works of art, expressed instances antiestablishment rebels and the punk movement.
A production throughout the European iconography that includes clothes, movies, zines, posters, leaflets, drawings, album covers. Jobs famous in part (as the face of Elizabeth II covered by the Sex Pistols and written by the title of "God save the queen, by Jamie Reid) and in part unpublished, such as those of the French team Bazooka.
A production throughout the European iconography that includes clothes, movies, zines, posters, leaflets, drawings, album covers. Jobs famous in part (as the face of Elizabeth II covered by the Sex Pistols and written by the title of "God save the queen, by Jamie Reid) and in part unpublished, such as those of the French team Bazooka.
Even fashion is no exception to the influence of punk aesthetic, and draws its codes: the energy of colors, the power of eloquent writing, the creative freedom of patterns. In a game of references and amazing matches, including the forerunner of course, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen but also, and then Balmain, Versus, Balenciaga ... 
Europunk. The punk visual culture in Europe, 1976-1980, from 21 January to 20 March, French Academy in Rome. Catalog Dragon. Iconographic research: Caroline Doré. 
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