Damien Hurst (Damien Hirst) , an admirer of the English punk recently bought a huge amount of clothes the 1970's, allegedly the chief sew punk designer Vivienne Westwood (Vivienne Westwood) and her partner Malcolm McLaren (Malcolm McLaren), music producer and manager of the group Sex Pistols. At clothing Hurst spent 80 thousand pounds (160 thousand dollars). Shopping met put it in his museum .

said that Hurst has bought clothes from the owner of the website Punkpistol.com Simon Easton (Simon Easton). According to Easton, items sold at the famous shop Westwood and McLaren, who first called SEX, and then given the name Seditionaries.

Having knowledge of the purchase of Hurst, McLaren are very surprised. After all, with the Westwood store just could not sell a number of things. «Yes, we did not do so, and - he says. - We sewed them on the floor of my kitchen». Moreover, McLaren noted that the fabric used in sewing Hurst bought clothes, not those that they have used thirty-five years ago. Yes, and the seams are quite different. In addition, most of the works of Westwood and McLaren could not «live» up to the present day. All things were made by hand and often dilapidate before the first washing.

McLaren said that the counterfeit clothing to sell in one big auction, as well as in the New York Museum of Modern Art (NY MOMA).

Julia Maksimova

Sources: www.artinfo.com , www.showbizspy.com , artinvestment.ru