Grunge Style

Grunge Style

What is Grunge Style?
Grunge style emerged in the early ‘90s, ushered in by the era’s indie rock heroes (think Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder). Despite hitting the big time, everyone’s favourite shampoo dodgers made a point of rejecting designer threads in favour of retaining the “uniform” of the struggling artist – thrifted flannel shirts, battered Converse, ripped jeans and ill-fitting cardis.

As an “anti-fashion” statement, though, it wasn’t too successful: by 1992, Marc Jacobs elevated grunge clothing to high fashion status, putting a veritable army of ‘90s supermodels – from Kate to Naomi, via Helena, Christy, Yasmin, Tyra and Carla Bruni – in beanies, bovver boots and all-checked errthang on the catwalk for Perry Ellis. Whilst this move lost him his job, it won him the CFDA’s Designer of the Year Award. And the rest is history.

Grunge Style Dress