SHOWstudio: Punk on the Runway - Lisa Armstrong

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Channel: SHOWstudio · 2013 · Film & Animation

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To celebrate and unpick punk's lasting influence on high fashion, SHOWstudio asked a range of our favourite editors and stylists to tell us about their top punk moment on the catwalk. In candid phone chats with Lou Stoppard, fashion's great and good assess punk's transition from 'chaos to couture', offering up personal anecdotes, show memories and shrewd fashion analysis.

In this recording the Telegraph's Lisa Armstrong explains why Liz Hurley's infamous safety pin dress was punkish in both attitude and aesthetic.

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