“Preppy” // J.F.A.

You’re a prep and that’s a factOriginality you’ve always lackedI can see right through your act

You’re a preppy, a preppyBy any other name, you’d still be the sameTopsiders, alligators, Calvin Klein jeansArgyle socks, you look real keenThat’s not your life man, it’s Pierre Cardin’s

You’re a preppy, preppyThink you’re real hot, being who you’re not

Of all the preppies I’ve been shownI’ve seen something you’ve always knownunderneath the alligators is afucking clone

You’re a preppy, preppyYou’re so fucking lame, you all look the same

She is sick and tired of her plain, boring, small town New England life. One night, on a whim, she cuts up all her old clothes and sews them back together, adding scraps and studs found at her favor-ite local charity shop she’s ‘forbidden’ from setting foot inside. Asking for trouble, but she doesn’t

care. They can’t do anything about it once the clothes are all cut up anyways...She is a free spirt, awake, alive, young, excited. Can’t wait to run away by herself and explore and

see the world, but she hasn’t quite mustered the courage just yet. Soon though.

The Fall 2013 collection is rooted in the fascinating relationship between two disparate subcultures: the punk and the prep. Both ideologies possess an origin and evolutionary history that is relevant

to the political and socioeconomic nature of their most vibrant years. The 1950s prototypical preppy lifestyle and the 1970s punk rock scene that was founded on the subversion of the former’s ideals,

curiously share several of the same features (though in different contexts). An article I came across, “The Punk Prep” highlights the unexpectedly symbiotic relationship between these two subcultural sects. The collection’s title references a punk track mentioned in the article whose lyrics shun the

“preppies” donning the classic Lacoste alligator logo. Through the research and development of this line, I have strived to explore the unexpected correlation between these subcultures via the narrative

of a rebellious young woman.

Designed and Photographed by Anu Lingala