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So, as you probably know, in the Seventies, Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood had a store called SEX, a fetish clothing shop which eventually turned into Seditionaries.  This reincarnation centered on Punk lifestyle clothing, and it’s the label that those famous striped mohair sweaters and slashed “Anarchy” and “God Save the Queen” screened t-shirts were born under.  As the legend goes, every Punk visionary to ever walk the streets of Chelsea popped into the shop on a regular basis and…you know the rest of the story.

Now comes the controversy.

It seems that some guy named Simon Easton is selling Seditionaries fakes to museums, auction houses and even Damien Hirst to the tune of about $150,000.  He was also reportedly selling them on eBay for awhile.

Well, of course, the super-capitalist McLaren is pissed about the whole thing.  Probably because he didn’t think of it first–I mean, let’s face it, he’s never exactly been an art for art’s sake kind of guy, and he’s a master at profiteering from other’s work.

Plus, I pose this question:  Isn’t it sort of punk that this guy Easton is flooding the market with fakes? Doesn’t the whole idea of this Seditionaries stuff being sold for big bucks at auctions and sitting in museums kind of defeat the very reason it exists in the first place?

Wasn’t the original purpose of these clothes to revolt the masses not cause a bidding war?

–Valentina

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