Hot Rod | AW12 | Cut & Colour

This season’s collection, draws inspiration from the work of Swiss photographer Karl Heinz Weinberger whose gritty images depicted the stylishly disaffected Zurich teenager dubbed halbstarke or ’half strong.’ In Weinberger’s evocative images the trappings of American rebel youth are cut and re-mixed; denim jeans and jackets intricately customized; belt buckles formed out of horse-shoes or the head of Elvis; zips replaced with screws, bolts and chains. The theme of teenage rebellion is expressed in h