Last night saw a preview on a giant outdoor screen in Chelsea’s Duke Of York Square of a couple of the new films celebrating the golden age of London boutique culture.
All satin, no tat, 1971: Kansai Yamamoto, Michael Chow, David Parkinson, Tommy Roberts, Barney Wan et al
Jun 14th, 2012
//From The Sunday Times Magazine, November 28, 1971.//
The joy of writing about a subject as rich as Tommy Roberts is that research turns up an apparently limitless supply of fabulous material.
Even the tangential stuff – such as this from my archive, a spread from a 1971 Sunday Times Magazine – gets me going.
Memories of Dandie Fashions + Paradise Garage + a return to Granny’s
May 18th, 2012
//Frederiques Cifuentes photographs Diana Crawshaw outside 430 King's Road.//
Filming continued yesterday 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.
We will be covering all the boutique manifestations at 430 King’s Road; for a start I plumped for its incarnation as Paradise Garage in 1971, operated by Trevor Myles with Chris Snow and Diana Crawshaw.
Filming: Lloyd Johnson and Nigel Waymouth for the King’s Road Fashion + Music Trail
May 17th, 2012
//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.//
Club’s crowd-pulling cars (+ a chopper)
Feb 17th, 2011
This feature on five owners of interesting automobiles comes from a time long before the banalities of Top Gear.
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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