Dr Martens celebrates 50th anniversary

By Phong Luu 1214PM GMT 10 Mar 2010

Cult must-haves (from left) Agyness Deyn owes a span in musty red; DMs are the shoes of preference for punks; Madonna"s daughter, Lourdes, wears hers stylishly unlaced. Photo REX

Tough-looking, overworked work boots have been the default off-duty shoes for the hip, young, Agyness Deyn set for the past couple of seasons, and nothing some-more so than the iconic Dr Martens, that celebrates the 50th anniversary this year.

The dad of all work boots, "DMs" were initial grown in Germany by Klaus Martens, and done in Northampton, in the UK, in 1960.

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They took on a some-more fashionable, anarchic corner in the Seventies and Eighties, anticipating foster with punks, skinheads and New Wavers, who wore them with biker jackets, jeans - and signature sneer.

Today, Docs are cult conform must-haves. Agyness Deyn owes multiform pairs, together with one in red, as does the the punky model, Alice Dellal, and Madonnas ever on-the-pulse daughter, Lourdes Ciccone Leon, has been speckled wearing them stylishly unlaced.

To toast the boots" stability popularity, the Northampton Museum and Art Gallery will hold an exhibition, Dr Martens at 50 The Making of an Icon.

Says mouthpiece Josephine Hickin "Over the past 50 years, DMs have been work-wear and propagandize shoes, ragged by policemen and punks, skinheads and domestic activists. They have concurrently represented both conform and anti-fashion. There is no alternative shoe code that has done such a immeasurable grant to British enlightenment and their story is fascinating."

Dr Martens at 50 The Making of an Icon, twenty Mar - sixteen May, Northampton Museum and Art Gallery; northampton.gov.uk/museums