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The Red Dragonhood is a street fashion label from Wales, founded in 2006 by Welsh designer Martin Davies. The label is rooted in Welsh counter-culture, as exemplified at different times by the music of bands such as Stereophonics, Manic Street Preachers, Super Furry Animals, Catatonia and Goldie Lookin' Chain, and the literature of Rachel Trezise, Niall Griffiths and John Ellis Williams. It draws on references from rock music, the Welsh language, Welsh history and the typically self-deprecating Welsh sense of humour to express a non-conformist, contemporary representation of Welsh identity. Worn by musicians Richard Jones, Javier Weyler, Nicky Wire, Dafydd Ieuan and Guto Pryce, actors Rhys Ifans and Matthew Rhys, television presenter Lisa Rogers and writer Rachel Trezise, the label has a cult following in Wales and sells to Welsh expats the world over by mail order. ==History== Davies originally created the Red Dragonhood (meaning ''brother/sisterhood of the Red Dragon'' or more simply ''Welsh people'') to subvert traditional Welsh iconography, such as the emblem known as the Prince of Wales's feathers. Buckingham Palace and the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) both claim exclusive commercial rights to an emblem that many Welsh people consider to be a symbol of Wales itself. So he began using T-shirts as a protest medium. Rejecting what he considered to be hackneyed and stereotypical examples of Welshness - blazer-wearing male voice choirs, traditional Welsh costume, leeks, daffodils, lovespoons etc. - he printed, for example, T-shirts with an image of a sheep's skull and glow-in-the-dark ink to highlight the plight of North Walian farmers in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster. Having previously sworn that he would never produce anything rugby-related, he designed a T-shirt to coincide with the 2009 Six Nations Championship, where the claws of a dragon appeared to rip out of the shirt from the wearer's heart through a symbol not unlike that used by the Welsh Rugby Union. Davies created a more direct vehicle for his political and economic ideas when he founded Newid (''change'' in Welsh), a political party in Wales, in 2009. The Red Dragonhood subsequently appears to have evolved into a more mainstream fashion-orientated brand, albeit one with some underlying political themes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Red Dragonhood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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