//Frederique Cifuentes captures Lloyd Johnson in the doorway at 406 King's Road. Lloyd installed the lamp above his head when he opened Johnson's at the premises in 1978.//

Yesterday filming started for this summer’s King’s Road Fashion & Music Trail, which is is being launched to visitors to west London’s historic thoroughfare as part of Kensington & Chelsea’s InTransit festival in July.

The films of sites which have housed important boutiques in the story of rock & roll fashion will be accessible for pedestrians via QR codes and also appear on the RBKC website and on Youtube.

//Nigel Waymouth on the terrace at 488 King's Road.//

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Tags: Alan Kirwan, Alexander Plunkett Green, Bazaar, Dandie Fashions, Frederique Cifuentes, Granny Takes A trip, Johnson's The Modern Outfitters, Mary Quant, Nigel Waymouth, Paradise Garage, Rocco Borghese, Worlds End

//Stetson, embroidered shirt and hand-tooled leather belt from The Emperor Of Wyoming. Photo: David Parkinson for Club International, February 1974.//

Billy Murphy’s boutique The Emperor Of Wyoming was an extremely important staging post not just in the story of British rock and roll fashion but also the development of the vintage scene in this country.

Opened by Murphy at 404 King’s Road in 1972, TEOW specialised in selected items of Westernwear and American clothing at a time when the pickings were slim for such garments in London.

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Tags: Billy Murphy, Club International, David Parkinson, Jesse Mae, The Emperor Of Wyoming, The Westerner, Trevor myles, Worlds End

The new issue of The Word magazine includes a photo-spread on the exhibition Lloyd Johnson: The Modern Outfitter.

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Tags: Chelsea Space, Danny Baker, Don Grant, John Lydon, Kenny macDonald, Kensington & Chelsea Today, Kosmo Vinyl, Marx, Worlds End, Wreckless Eric

These are exterior shots of the incarnations of 430 King’s Road since the early 60s.

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Tags: Bill Fuller, Carol derry, Hung On You, Jane Ormsby-Gore, Let It Rock, Malcolm McLaren, Michael Rainey, Mr Freedom, Paradise Garage, Peter York, Seditionaries, SEX, The 430 Boutique, Tommy Roberts, Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die, Trevor myles, Vivienne Westwood, Worlds End