The reaction this week to Liam Gallagher sporting the reissued Berghaus Trango jacket reveals how seemingly non-fashion brands like Berghaus—appropriated by British youth in the '80s—continue to carry complex cultural weight today.
The Westminster Menswear Archive holds both a vintage Trango jacket and a pair of Lidl trainers, pieces that highlight how the meritocracy of design is still tainted by a fashion system deeply embedded in classist notions of taste and status. Does the reaction to the Berghaus launch this week reveal the complexity of this relationship, or does it reinforce the lingering divides between 'high' and 'low' culture in fashion?