Punks in Covent Garden, London 1985
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This 1985 photograph captures a group of punks in Covent Garden, their look as striking as any shop display in the piazza behind them. Bright red and pink dyed hair, shaved sides, heavy eye make-up, fishnet tights, black clothing and studded accessories give the scene a strong alternative style that feels unmistakably mid-1980s. Set against the classical colonnade and shopfronts of Covent Garden, the image works especially well as a contrast between old London architecture and the self-made street fashion culture that helped define the area’s atmosphere after its reinvention as a shopping and performance quarter. More than a simple portrait, it records the kind of people-watching that made Covent Garden such a draw in this period, when street style, youth culture and casual public display were as much part of the attraction as the market buildings themselves.
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