More on the Music-Fashion Connection

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/145755-sonic-youths-kim-gordon-starts-fashion-line


The impetus for this post is a combination of this article and a bit of development off of an earlier post. Patty and Stephanie brought up the music-fashion connection in relation to the soundtrack-teen identity formation connection. Patty mentioned that this might come up in the subculture week, but this is certainly worth addressing in relation to a much broader consumer culture context. There have been some very successful fashion lines connected to musicians in the past several years (I am thinking specifically about Gwen Stefani’s L.A.M.B line, but we could also include J. Lo’s children’s line, the Hilary Duff line, etc.), which can attribute much of their success to the fact that these lines seem like natural outgrowths of the styles of these musicians. This article from Pitchfork talks about Kim Gordon’s new limited edition jacket. I particularly like all the effort on the part of Gordon and Pitchfork to link the limited edition jacket to limited edition LPs and other musical side projects.