![]() Westwood has made the safety pin a central motif in her aesthetic ever since, with punk rock icons and fellow lovers of the pin - the Sex Pistols’ bass player, Glen Matlock and future Pretenders frontwoman, Chrissie Hynde - both employed as shop assistants at Sex prior to their stratospheric musical careers. When Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren rebranded their iconic London shop at 430 Kings Road, naming it Sex and filling its interior with barbed wire and studs, the couple also began to sell fetishwear and T-shirts and pants covered in safety pins. My point is that the safety pin was hijacked long ago for social activism purposes. I see a multicultural group standing strong together led by a rebellious and courageous. In the 1940s, back when the Netherlands was oppressed under the Nazi regime, people began wearing the pin discreetly. The safety pin symbol was derived from a reaction to the U.K. ![]() This season – one in which McQueen put it to sensational use in its A/W17 menswear jewellery pieces, and Jeremy Scott decorated Moschino’s accessories with them, in collaboration with pin pioneer Judy Blame – feels like a timely moment to consider its most exhilarating moments, both on the runway and beyond. Clothes, noses, pants, hair, you name it, to identify with the punk movement. The core meaning of a safety pin tattoo has a political background. The safety pin has a long history as a hallmark of another movement: punk rock. The safety pin became the basis of a variety of other useful items, including pins for diapers, attaching. And the anniversary of the date that this handy little item was patented was April 10, which is the reason International Safety Pin Day is celebrated on this day each year. ![]() Whether that display of solidarity is enough these days is another issue. Still, the modern invention of the safety pin is credited to Hunt. It's an albeit superficial way to say those people are 'safe' with the pin wearer. From its resonance as a symbol of punk rebellion in the 1960s, to its more recent reappropriation as a symbol of alliance with minority groups by political activists in the US, the safety pin has a rich and eclectic history in fashion. In general, people wear safety pins as 'a symbol of solidarity' with those who are marginalized.
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