Ask pupils to brainstorm ways of changing and customising clothes and the methods they could use to achieve this. Encourage them to visit art and clothing materials shops to find out what sort of products are available for clothes customisation. They may find it useful to talk to older relatives or friends, who can tell them about ways they customised clothes in the past.
Ask pupils to research the ways that clothing has been recycled in the past to come up with something new, for example, punks in the 1970s and the work of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, and the deconstruction fashion movement of the 1990s and designers such as Martin Margiela.
- BBC British Style Genius: McLaren on anti-fashion [Flash video]
- Martin Margiela Slideshow [website: external link]
