antifashion

(ˌæntɪˈfæʃən)

adj

opposing mainstream fashion

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In Tokyo, different subcultures of fashion exist, but they mostly nestle under the umbrella of antifashion.

Ben Chan in Tokyo: We want Filipino fashion to be the next big thing

Their influence essentially defined the 1960s--hippie antifashion, divergent music, dropout politics, and a "make love not war" philosophy that extended to virtually every corner of the world and remains influential to this day.

The Hippies: A 1960s History

Perhaps Konkona, in keeping with her arty cinema image, is trying to project an antifashion style.

Koko's fetish for pyjamas offends style

What do we have at stake when we reject--or valorize--a body or field of study through its designation as fashionable, unfashionable, or as antifashion? How is gender normativity shored up through banal moments of proud or absent-minded unfashionability and even anti-fashionability?

Re-fashioning the architectonics of gender

When rock legend Chrissie Hynde formed the Pretenders in 1978, her trademark dark fringe, outspoken views and antifashion took America by storm.

What a girl wants: CURVE's annual music issue

The silk boycotters' break with the antifashion tradition was particularly significant in the 1930s when the consumer movement was large and respected but still widely depicted as puritanical, humorless, and unalterably opposed to adornment of any kind.

'Make lisle the style': the politics of fashion in the Japanese silk boycott, 1937-1940

But John Stephen, a man of elegance and style, was slipping by the time the punks came in the mid1970s with their antifashion creations.

OBITUARY: John Stephen

A general company all in black has abandoned antifashion for conformity" (367).

"A tyrannically democratic force": the symbolic and cultural function of clothing in Catherine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie

what makes it a pleasure to see or, for that matter, turns you off or, in the attitudes of antifashion, still fascinates, though with pins through the nose and hoops through the lips and other scarifications, it may cause you to look away.

Of Borders and Thresholds: Theatre History, Practice, and Theory

The movie is commonly acknowledged as the media moment that marked the end of grunge (Generation X's antifashion movement) and the rebirth of the fashion-conscious teen consumer.

'It's about fun, cool and hip.'(drug store marketing of cosmetics and fragrances to teenagers)

Whether Pavlick and Bengtsson are talking about womenswear or menswear, their comments have a refreshing antifashion vibe to them--a realization that most people want to buy something stylish but still affordable.

Dressed for success

Extending over nearly three decades - from the delinquent antifashion of punk with its conflation of sex and violence to the subversive conformism of twinsets and tweeds - Westwood's collections have swung from dominatrix to courtly wench.