New Punk Hairstyles

Color - especially bright orange as worn by Pistols' frontman Johnny Rotten - became As a result, the hair tended to form itself into clumps and spikes, which started to become the formal "look" for punk hair. Hair was simply chopped of using whatever implements were to hand, and left untreated and unwashed. Mid-to-late-1970s punk hairstyles were actually quite subdued; hair remained fairly short - probably as a reaction to the trend at the time for both male and female hair to be worn long.

The fashion tapped into anti-establishment feelings of the time and the punk hairstyles were a reflection of the clothes and attitudes - unwashed, anarchic and spiky. The Pistols' unique look was largely created by Westwood, utilizing zips, rips, chains, bondage, porn and slogans. The Pistols were managed at the time by Malcolm McLaren, who was Westwood's partner (personally and professionally) and the crazy mixture of these 3 forces gave rise to what would become a global phenomenon. Punk took off as a mainstream fashion and music trend during the mid-1970s, largely due to the efforts of high profile English fashion designer, Vivienne Westwood and the crown princes of punk - The Sex Pistols. I'm not a punk and have never been one, but I have always been fascinated by the whole punk look and ideology - probably because I was a teenager at the very time that punk exploded, kicking, screaming, swearing and spitting, into popular culture. Punk hairstyles - those bizarre, colorful things that you see in high streets, villages and black-painted teenage bedrooms!