Artist liks: Tankie girl and Ms Westwood

So i've found three pretty great points of reference for my project. Starting with tank girl and the work of Jamie Hewlett, and Rufus Dayglo.

  

So Im looking at these two works on the same character because they both encapsulate what i want to portray in my imagery, an in your face, fuck you attitude, with characters that look damn good and messy all at the same time. On top of my research on existing punk looks, this offers a hyper stylised version of the fashion, taking the movement even further, something i wish to do and will have to combining the fancy suffragette clothing with stripped down punk. I bought the second book especially for this task and i was pleasantly surprised at the use of colour also, very in tune with what i plan to use for my own, vibrancy, nice.

Now to Vivienne Westwood

 

So if i'm going to approach punk in terms of costume, i have to look in to one of the big hitters in terms of early punk as a fashion movement. Her clothing is interesting, but it was an interview that really grabbed my attention, where the interviewer asked her to explain punk, and she basically explained that it was totally about going against the norm, trying to offend and cause outrage in your image, gotta keep that in mind.