Always anxious to unravel taboos, British fashion luminaries are sashaying into serious foul territory with their latest theme—Nazis. Seemingly enthused by Prince Harry's notorious Gestapo getup and fueled by the resurgence of Nazi punks' favorite footwear Doc Martens, London shock label Voyage showed a collection of garments emblazoned with large, conspicuous swastikas—just what you need to get yourself 86-ed from any respectable public location. And Gucci Group designer Alexander McQueen (surprise, surprise) has been showing leather vests decorated in Nazi eagles, swastikas, and iron crosses in his new, cheaper line McQ.

All this artistic goose-stepping and Deutschland über alles has some people in the fashion world yelling "Oy! Oy! Oy!"—no one louder than Brooklyn, New York, Hasidic Jewish designer Levi Okunov, who told Radar that the neo, neo-Nazi symbolism is "so cliché, even Hitler wouldn't wear it."

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Okunov grew up in an epicenter of orthodox Judaism, Crown Heights, but even in secular, sinful New York hipster circles, he's lauded today for his colorful couture and eccentric disposition. During a brief relationship with Ukrainian figure skater Oksana Baiul, for example, he was inspired by her life on ice and has decided to present his Fall/Winter 2007 collection in a skating rink during New York's February fashion week. In other words, he knows from fringe.

It's upsetting to Okunov, however, that Alexander McQueen, a designer he considers an icon, would be so unreasonable as to evoke the Third Reich. "It's coming from a negative place and shows a lack of creativity," Okunov says. "Plus all those older Jewish women who buy McQueen will be really alienated by this—It's a bad career move all around."

So now who's feeling punk'd?

Photo: (Voyage) timesonline.co.uk, (Levi Okunov) The Cobrasnake, (McQ ad) i-D magazine.