The Bunny Report: "Doc Martens Have Re-Emerged as the Essential Footwear of the Radical Fashion World"

Welcome to the second installment of The Bunny Report, wherein our floppy, fashion-forward intern Jordan walks us through his look of the day.

I saw this pretty interesting movie called This Is England the other day. It’s basically this heartwarming coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old skinhead in the '80s as he embarks on a young life of, like, sex, thievery, killing people because of their race, and other happy stuff like that. And might I say, after watching his Fred Perry-clad cronies needlessly kick the shat out of basically everyone else in the movie, all that quasi-political hate-criming reminded me of how much I totally love Doc Martens!

I mean, let’s be real. I wasn’t really paying attention to the movie if that makes my slightly offensive mental fashion associations somewhat more acceptable, and everyone already knows that styles of skinhead subculture have been appropriated so many times that any extremist connotations are basically irrelevant. (I’m sure Dick Hebdige would love my oversights, but whatev!)

Controversial contexts aside, the Doc Martens have re-emerged as the essential footwear of the radical fashion world. This season, interpretations of the boot stomped down both the Gareth Pugh and Yohji Yamamoto runways and resonate in the designs of Chloe, Marc Jacobs and other kewl peeps like that.

What I really like about the DMs (besides the obvious sex appeal) is that one can reference virtually any era of fashion within the last half-century and feel justified in thinking the boots as a quintessential product of that specific time or trend. Lest we not forget flippantly moody '90s style goddesses Angela Chase and Rayanne Graff who so effortlessly vitalized the Doc’s essentiality to suburban American grunge!

Anyways, I was pretty sure everyone on this afternoon’s subway ride was not-so-covertly talking about how AWESOME my boots are and how surely FRESH they are in today’s ever-changing fashion climate, but then I realized that my American Apparel tank top is weirdly baggy and I was having a LiLo nip slip moment! Anything for the kids!