# Punk × Punk Fashion — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=punk+punk-fashion
# Punk carries the structure and Punk Fashion appears as the accent.
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images that take their structure from Punk (style, 1970s–1980s) and their accent from Punk Fashion (style, mid-1970s–).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Punk exists for: voicing dissent against the rules, or giving events and communities a raw voice. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Punk

- Cut-and-paste letters
- Photocopier noise
- Handwriting
- Ragged placement

Composition: Deliberate misalignment and overlap; disturb even the margins. Type and lettering: Mix newsprint letters, handwriting and stamps.

## Accent comes from Punk Fashion, used sparingly

- Torn T-shirts with exposed seams and fasteners
- Safety pins, chains, zips and bondage hardware
- Handwritten slogans, band names and repurposed insignia
- Upright hair, hard makeup and body piercings

Let one material quality come from it: Cut, pin and resew secondhand cotton, leather and tartan with metal and permanent ink. Keep dangerous hardware off skin and verify wear safety.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #eee3cf, carry the structure in #ef3127 and #10100f, and let a single accent come from #D62D32. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: rebellion, exhilaration, play.

## What goes wrong

- Punk: Borrowed rebellion is hollow. Decide what you are protesting first.
- Punk Fashion: A new set of safety pins, tartan and a mohawk becomes costume. Separate it from Punk graphics and retain who objects to what and how the wearer altered the garment.

## Across the four

Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.

Design specs for each entry: https://indexstyle.org/styles/punk/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/punk-fashion/design.md