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It’s more about the idea of being authentic.

Punk style’s most enduring legacy can’t be boiled down to a particular item of clothing, or even the popularity of distressed jeans and dyed hair.

X singer Exene Cervenka and scenester Pleasant Gehman pose in a shower at a loft where the pioneering fanzine Slash was throwing a party for Devo.

It’s more than just a sound, it’s a whole way of being-a philosophy, an attitude, and, crucially, a look.

Music’s only ever been just one facet of punk’s identity, though.

“It was shameful back then to run around with holes in your jeans, and the Ramones said f-k that, that’s who we are!,” says photographer Jenny Lens.

Groups like Television and Blondie, influential forces in both music and style, frequented CBGB.

Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry pioneered high-low mixes of Levi’s and designer pieces.

In the mid-Seventies, the new New York sound and style came into focus through Blondie, among others.

The Ramones created a uniform of shredded Levi’s 505 jeans and black leather jackets.Rock’s new rebels preferred lived-in T-shirts and jeans.Punk’s sonic foundations were laid down in New York City by the same people who established the beginnings of punk style, like electronic duo Suicide.While Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones matched their arena-filling ambitions with equally elaborate costumes of velvet and sequins, rock’s new rebels preferred lived-in T-shirts and Levi’s.

Punk’s sonic foundations were laid down in New York City by the same people who established the beginnings of punk style: artists like Lou Reed, the Ramones, Suicide, and the New York Dolls who wanted to strip away the bloat rock had accumulated in the psychedelic era and return it to something purer. Music’s only ever been just one facet of punk’s identity, though.

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The rebellious spirit and willingness to question traditional conventions-like the idea that you had to know how to play an instrument before you could start a band-would find their way into nearly every meaningful musical revolution that followed, from hip-hop to indie rock to techno. Loud, fast, and simple, punk rescued rock‘n’roll from suffocating on its own excesses, giving the genre a razor-blade edge it hadn’t had since its earliest days.