http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 132AAmmkALIs boy london's eagle logo related to the nazi symbol?
Yes it's related to the Nazis, in the late 70's and early 80's Boy London was just BOY a Punk Boutique on the Kings Rd. owned by Stephan Raynor and chief rival to Vivienne Westwood's Seditionaries Boutique. Like Seditionaries BOY used a lot of Nazi imagery, one of it's earliest designs under the BOY Label was a silk screen print of Adolf Hitler's portrait. The Eagle began as a t-shirt print as well, the earliest was sold when the shop was called Acme Attractions and included the swastika below the Eagle, this shirt was owned by Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols. When the shop changed it's name to BOY they cut the swastika off and added the BOY logo instead. When celebrities like Boy George and Madonna became BOY regulars the shop re branded itself as Boy London a label marketed more to teeny boppers than Punks, but for whatever reason they decided to keep the German Eagle. The Eagle is related to, but distinctly different from the Roman Legion Eagle. Even the Boy London website didn't try to hide the fact the Eagle was taken from Nazi Germany. I strongly discourage you from getting the tattoo.
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A close friend of mine owned a small Punk Boutique in the 70's. This boutique stocked both Seditionaries and BOY, the first, and only independent retailer of Vivienne Westwood and BOY at that time in England. In the early 80's he was the go between for Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, and Stephan Raynor hammering out the deal for BOY to buy the Seditionaries catalogue when Westwood changed the name to Worlds End and steered away from the Punk image. He continued to design for BOY until the mid 80's when he opened his own Boutique in the Hyper Hyper Market and managed to obtain the rights to reproduce a number of Seditionaries/Worlds End, and BOY designs. Both his ex-wife and daughter have modeled for Vivienne Westwood, and he is still one of the best known dealers of vintage Vivienne Westwood in the world.
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TL;DR : c'était une marque de punk et comme des gros troll ils ont pris un symbole nazi.
