I’m among the interviewees featured in Subculture, Don Letts’ Channel 4 documentary about post-War British street style, the first part of which aired for the first time last night.
Blessed & Blasted: The 1980 Face Show. 01.1981
Jan 28th, 2011
As explored in In Their Own Write, the most important creative in the development of British print media in the latter half of the 20th Century was Nick Logan. Arguably his greatest contribution was via the launch of The Face in 1980.
This year-end review – “123 things to remember 1980 by” – was featured in issue 9, published 30 years ago.
Adopting the technique applied at Harpers & Queen by the magazine’s poster boy Peter York – who appears in this issue in three separate articles due to the recent publication of his tone-setting Style Wars – The 1980 Face Show inaugurated the lifestyle list-culture which dominates global media to this day.
It’s as fascinating for who it promulgated – who can remember the name of Bad Manners’ lead singer now? – as for that which it found hard to define.
430 over six decades
Jan 25th, 2011
These are exterior shots of the incarnations of 430 King’s Road since the early 60s.
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