

photos: Bess NYC
Stolen from the anti-hippie punk fashion of the seventies, this past year has seen everything from jewelry, bags, shoes and even jeans adorned with grommets, spikes and pyramid studs. While the puncturing of all that can be stamped in studs is said to be a passing trend, It will always be classic style (or anti-style) in my mind. I think Bess NYC agrees.

photo: bess nyc
The expensive leather and shredded lower east side store can probably be imitated easily with a little do -it yourself action, but any designer that can put both a man and a woman in a studded garter belt deserves some serious cred.
Though, the upside down cross necklaces and bedazzled pentagram bag are more burn-down-the-church- thrash-black metal than piss-out-a-hotel window-on-passers by-punk. And, the price point? Well, that's rich-kid-trying-to-be-a-rock star. But still...
Check out the looks from their Fall 2009 line.

photos: Bess NYC


