But Seattle, notes Wilson, also has its own Fab Four: grunge icons Nirvana ... and literally put electric guitar rock back on the map. Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden became ...

Though rarely mentioned in the same breath as “style” or “fashion,” that rainy mountain town in the top left corner of the map laid the ... menswear zeitgeist of grunge and gorp, going ...

Grunge: The word still has the power to make longtime Seattleites cringe, conjuring as it does images of grubby cardigans and long johns worn under shorts, the faddish, flannel-sporting caricature of ...

Born in the ’80s at the beginning of Seattle’s rock-music renaissance, the grunge aesthetic didn’t truly blossom until the early ’90s. But before it became a full-fledged fashion phenomena ...

However, one of the few they have steered clear of is grunge, an alternative rock genre and subculture which originated in Seattle in the 1980s, identifiable by the use of distorted electric ...