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In 2005, British supermodel Kate Moss went to Glastonbury with her then-boyfriend, indie rocker Pete Doherty. Their unwashed appearance captured widespread attention, propelling the British indie music scene and its signature lookslender bodies clad in skinny jeansto the center of popular fashion. Using this fashionable watershed as a launching point, Fashioning Indie narrates indies evolution: from a 1980s British music subculture into a 21st-century international fashion phenomenon. It explores the lucrative transformation of indie style, first into high concept menswear and later into festival fashiona womenswear phenomenon that remade what indie looked like and provided a launching point to reimagine who the ideal subject of indie could be. Read more