Do you think turning serious political ideology into fashion trivialises it?
NK: I don’t think that political thought is constant. I think there is the same degree of change within the political spectrum as there is within fashion. In this Political Fashion Films project, I’m really looking to encourage people to say something with the voice they’ve been given; to realise the possibilities that they have at their fingertips and the absurdity of not using them. PM: What periods do you think have been the most successful in using fashion to express political comment? NK: I think fashion is political comment, the statement you make when you dress. When I started dressing as a skinhead in the late Seventies, it seemed to be relevant in questioning who I was, what social class I was; a rites of passage in a time when that no longer existed. It became a way of feeling empowered and of feeling of some belonging. People would have no idea if I was left-wing, right-wing, gay, straight, violent, non-violent, into the girls, into the dancing, into the music… They would
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