//Cover, Man About Town SS16. Otto in Buffalo hat and Rigby & Peller bra (prototype for Nostalgia Of Mud, 1982). Photography: Alasdair McLellan. Styling: Olivier Rizzo//

//Above left: Frankie in Buffalo hat, white Nike socks and my George Cox Diano creepers. Right: Natalie in Malcolm McLaren’s Chico hat (Witches, 1983), Buffalo jacket (Nostalgia Of Mud, 1982) and Bondage Trousers (Seditionaries, 1976). Photography: Alasdair McLellan. Styling: Olivier Rizzo. Hair: Duffy: Make Up: Lynsey Alexander. Man About Town SS16//

On a warm London afternoon last July I enjoyed a meeting with Ben Reardon, editor-in-chief of the biannual Man About Town, the magazine’s senior fashion editor Danny Reed and Young Kim of the Malcolm McLaren Estate.

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Tags: Alasdair McLellan, Alexander Trocchi, Ben Reardon, Bravo, Buffalo Gals, Danny Reed, Diano, Gallery International, George Cox, Helen And Desire, Honey, Idea Books, Man About Town, Natalie Westley, Olivier Rizzo, Olympia Press, Sado sex For The Seventies, Smash Hits, Wally Wood, Young Kim

//Magazines from my archive (clockwise from top left): Creem, August 1974; Grand Royal #3, 1995; Club International, August 1973; Harpers & Queen, October 1976//

//After Dark, September 1974; Ben Is Dead #26, 1996//

I’m one of the contributors to Print, writer Lou Stoppard’s forthcoming celebration of the great fashion and music magazines of the past and present.

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Tags: After Dark, Bay Garnett, Ben Is Dead, Cheap Date, Club International, Creem, Deluxe, Grand Royal, Harpers & Queen, Honey, Jefferson Hack, Kira Jolliffe, Lipstick, Lou Stoppard, Nick Knight, NME, Nova, Perry Ogden, Rags, Ritz, Showstudio, The Hyman Archive, The Mushpit, Tory Turk, Twen, West One