Surfers, Soulies, Skinheads and Skaters: Subcultural Style from the Forties to the Nineties by Claudia Schnurmann
This photographic survey features extraordinary clothes worn by members of subcultures as diverse as beatniks and skinheads, punks and New-Age travellers. It covers streetstyle from the 1940s through to the 1990s. These outfits, collected for the V&A's Streetstyle exhibition, are a visual record of subcultural expression over the last 60 years. The clothes are accompanied by quotes from their original wearers, whose readical and often subversive ideas have been a trendsetting influence on contemporary fashion.