Menswear Monday: Kurt Cobain by Sedge from Behind the Box Blog

For today’s installment the lovely Sedge from Behind the Box decided to do a guest post for Menswear Monday. Check out her awesome post here:

Male Monday: Kurt Cobain.

I’ve actually featured Kurt in Male Monday before but as it was his birthday yesterday I thought it was appropriate to dedicate Male Monday to him again. He’s also the definition of Grunge so he sits perfectly on this blog.

Carrying on the trend from the latest issue of Love, Kurt is my muse. I cannot get dressed in the morning without thinking about layers and beat up converse. Kurt represents the image of authentic rock, Kurt wore hand me downs, worn out parkas and beat up sneakers.
There’s a real demand for an authentic rock identity. This could be people’s response to living in a fake, constructed world. In many ways grunge is a reaction against modernity, which is why I 100% back the statement that ‘Grunge is not dead.’

So many people say that the sound of grunge quickly burnt out and faded away with the death of Kurt. His death affected his fans and his loved ones, he died in 1994 now over a decade on his band member, Dave Grohl still has nightmares; “I have sad, heart-wrenching fucked up dreams about him.” The fact that people are still talking about him proves that grunge is far from dead.
My favorite thing about Kurt was his Conny Vs. He was renown for his converse and converse always had a very close connection to subculture – from the birth of rock’n’roll and the youth rebellion that began in the 1950s, to punk rock and modern artists, performers and designers. As long as people are wearing converse they’ll always be thinking of Kurt.
Most of my favorite Kurt images were taken my Michael Lavine – if you haven’t purchased his book, Grunge, you need to. It will change the way you look at the world. He’s an incredibly talent photographer and his images of Kurt are truly mesmerizing. When asked about his photography his answer was simple. “We were making ironic imagery that matched the music. I was being influenced by the music to make those images.”

I can talk about Kurt for hours – I’m a little bit addicted but I shall stop myself. Here are a few of my favorite images of Kurt.

Thank you Lauren, for letting me post Male Monday here.

Happy Birthday Kurt <3

Sedge xx