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Summary: Rock-and-roll clothing should follow a rough aesthetic, whether it be grunge rock, punk rock or alternative rock. Put together a rock-and-roll outfit with tips from a New York City fashion stylist in this free video on fashion.
Mark Holmes is a professional fashion stylist in NYC. His past clients include fashion consulting for Gnarls Barkley and Maxim Magazine to name a couple. You can visit his website at...read more
"Alright, rock and roll clothes. You want to make rock and roll clothes. I think the idea with rock and roll and to get to that aesthetic for me is more about having kind of rough, a refined eye for rough aesthetic, it's I guess how I think about it. A rock and roll look to somebody else could mean something totally different than it would mean to another person. For instance, you might have somebody who envisions the St. Mark's, you know, sort of New York St. Mark's punk scene as being rock and roll. For me, it's an ethos, it's an aesthetic. So, I would do rock and roll with a very skinny tie, you know, an off top shirt underneath and like a nice shrunken motorcycle jacket that's all really worned in. For me, it's all about worn in aesthetics. There's a few ways that we can do this but I think what we going to do, we'll build a little rock and roll couple, sort of the guy-girl sort of situation. Couple key elements, couple key elements that you want to get for rock and roll is always the very skinny, real tight, skinny jean, that's essential especially for the guy. Something like this, it's really going to cling to, cling to the leg. You know, if it's hardly and unwashed, obviously, that's going to help the aesthetic. Also, with the girl, too. It's all about the leg, the skinny leg but then the top half being more droopy and kind of oversized a little it, and with the guy, too, so that there's a little bit of hanging sort of like that, so we have the leg that's really skinny and then the upper body that's sort of droopy and whatever. So, I was going to build a little look here for a guy and girl. For a guy, we'd start with the essential skinny jean here and then the suit jacket is a very rock and roll look. So, we have the suit jacket with a nice, little droopy tanks, sort of something like that here. Put that and the suit jacket is very important to have a nice, tailored, skinny cut. I mean from the rock and roll aesthetic for me is all about skinny, well-tailored look but then to make it look as if you don't really, you know, give a care about at it. You know, you got a nice, little look. Now, for her, something like a nice, like overflowing sort of sexy kind of thing going on here, it's a little bit shear, put like a maybe a black tank or like a, you know, a black bra just underneath. Give it some combat boots to really rough up to get the mix of feminine and, you know, rock and roll masculine sort of look like that. We go over here, grab some nice, long, dangly jewelry for her, and the more the better, pretty much for for necklaces, for rock and roll anyway. You know, really clutter her up, get some nice black, you know, fingerless leather gloves, you know, heek, hats are all always great. You do a hat, a nice, a nice worn in sort of hat sort of thing. She could do that with hair coming down like that, something you know. This little Civil War cap on him with scraggly hair coming down like that, big fan of the rock and roll look. So, rock and roll."
eHow Article: How to Make Rock & Roll Clothes