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Cobain was to grunge what Johnny Rotten was to punk. His greasy, bleached hair, pale waif-like body and thrift-shop clothes created the image of a strung-out, moody adolescent. The garments of grunge bands such as Cobain's Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains were cheap and casual; washed-out jeans and rock T-shirts. It started as an anti-fashion formula that dressed a generation of disaffected youth known as Generation X, but, predictably, was "cleaned up" to become a mainstream movement known as "Heroin Chic": an affected representation of an addict's wardrobe. Rebelling against his upbringing among homophobic lumberjacks in his home town, Cobain would sometimes try harder by wearing his partner's flowery dress and painting his nails in red. That partner, Courtney Love, came to personify a feminized version of the look that inspired Marc Jacobs to create his "grunge" collection of 1993. 

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