Nazi chic

Fashion trend Nazi chic for sale in Tokyo Nazi chic is the use and appropriation of style, imagery, iconography, and paraphernalia associated with Nazi Germany in high fashion. Nazi chic originally emerged through Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's designs, sold at their boutique Sex, which became influential in the development of punk fashion. However, the Hells Angels motorcycle club in the 1950s and rock musicians in the 1960s and 1970s had previously appropriated Nazi memorabilia. The style was later adopted by the wider fashion industry and partially inspired the leather subculture. Although the trend originated in the West, it later became popular in Asia. Europe and United States Forerunners 1950s–1970s The American Hells Angels motorcycle club wore Nazi memorabilia as early as the 1950s, member Sonny Barger stated that the group's obsession with Nazi paraphernalia was "not political" and partially originated from one early member who got hold of a "Nazi belt" that was brought back from the Second World War by his father. Barger stated "The Nazi flag was hung outside their clubhouse merely "to piss people off". Additionally, a patch worn by select club members consist