Costume Ideas

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alternative music artists are usually trying to break some kind of boundary, which is what makes them fall under this genre, their costumes/style of dress usually reflects this also. A good example of this is when ‘Tyler, the creator’ appeared on the front cover of NME magazine during the time of the royal wedding. On this front cover he is shown wearing two crowns, one around his neck and another slanted on the side of his head. This is clearly an unconventional way of wearing a crown and this connoted his carefree attitude towards the royal wedding, going against the social norms of the majority at this time. A pull quote from the artist says “I don’t give a sh*t about a royal wedding”, I will use a controversial pull quote from my model on the front cover as I feel it is effective in catching the readers attention and enticing the reader to find out more. Therefore as my magazine would fall under the ‘alternative’ genre, my model on the front cover will need to break some sort of social norm, i.e. do something that isn’t conventional for a model to do on a front cover while sticking to conventions of a music magazine to make it look professional.