//Clockwise from top left: @vieux.wave, @pippabrooks, @luxoramor, Nick Vivian, @ladyacss, @chrissalewicz//

//Clockwise from top left: @belmaczmayfair, mr + mrs @adamskiofficial, @joebrookks, @pippabrooks, @ourmanincairo, @mrsgorman//

We have to take our pleasures where we can during these grim times, and last night’s virtual book launch of my Malcolm McLaren biography provided a much-needed tonic.

The plan was to celebrate the publication with a party at the library bar of London’s hotel The Standard, with a relaxed congregation of friends and contributors and DJ sets by Pippa Brooks and Pam Hogg.

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Tags: Pam Hogg, Pippa Brooks, The Standard Library, virtual book launch

Asked by i-D’s Stuart Brumfitt to chose a favourite London fashion outlet I plumped for Shop, which was run  by Pippa Brooks and Max Karie for a decade from the mid-90s in Soho’s Brewer Street (I mistakenly referred to it being at number 5 – as you can see in the photo below it was at number 4).

//Shop in the early 00s. Photo: Pippa Brooks//

Read my reasons and the rest of London’s Legendary Stores – which includes contributions from Nicola Formichetti, Stephen Jones and Mandi Lennard – here.

Tags: Brewer Street, i-D, Mandi Lennard, Max Karie, Nicola Formichetti, Pippa Brooks, Stephen Jones

//Derek in his element signing books with the blow up of his Bowie silhouette sketch for Lodger reflected behind him. Photo (c) Sarah Lee//

Last night’s book launch and private view for the Derek Boshier monograph and new exhibition at Flowers Gallery in Cork Street, central London, was a great success.

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Tags: Daisy de Villeneuve, David Hockney, Dylan Jones, Flowers Gallery, Jan de Villeneuve, Ops & Ops, Pippa Brooks, Sarah Lee, Steph Jones, Teri Olins

//Susie Bubble pays tribute to Shop, The World According To…, Shop At Maison Bertaux, Posh, Shopgirl//

Rifling through her memories of Pippa Brooks and Max Karie’s Soho boutique Shop (which later mutated into The World According To… and then shifted base to Shop At Maison Bertaux), fashion blogger Susie Bubble has nice things to say about me and my work and includes in her selection of images the cover of the first edition of The Look.

This featured Libby Peder’s photograph of Pippa and James Dearlove, her musical collaborator in Posh, All About Eve Babitz and Shopgirl.

It was as Shopgirl that Pippa and James played the launch party, which was held across the road from Shop  at the club Astral and featured DJ sets by others in the book, including Jeff Dexter, Count Indigo, Dan Donovan + Don Letts and Jay Strongman.

//2001 invite to the party launching the first edition of The Look//

Read about that eventful night on THE LOOK blog.

Read Susie Bubble’s post Shopped-Out here.

I got to know Pippa through Shop and Posh, who I saw live a few times in the 90s. Sadly I missed this performance at Wembley Stadium on the same bill as Bon Jovi (is it me or is Pippa absolutely bricking it when she leans down to take a slug of water?):

Tags: All About Eve Babitz, Count Indigo, Dan Donovan, Don Letts, James Dearlove, Jay Strongman, Jeff Dexter, Libby Pedder, Max Karie, Pippa Brooks, Shop, Shopgirl, Susie Bubble

This film by Rik and Jane Gadsby of the May 2006 London launch of the second edition of my book The Look has just been posted online; it really evokes the good time that everyone had that night.

Pippa Brooks and her band All About Eve Babitz played and DJs included George O’Dowd.

The party was held at the premises of Raymond Revuebar, which by that time was Two II Much (dunno what it is these days). I was very touched when Kevin R. talked about how important he viewed the book and my work. “This is our culture,” he says in the clip above.

Enjoy.

Tags: Boy George, Jane Viva Gadsby, Kevin Rowland, Mark Powell, Pippa Brooks, Raymond Revuebar, Rik Gadsby, Two II Much

Hackney Road’s M Goldstein is one of London’s most intriguing and exciting retail ventures, a constantly evolving arrangement of antiques and curios, clothing and objets d’art.

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Tags: André Kertész, Commes des Garcons, Cygan, Dover Street Market, Etienne Gilfillan, Eugène Atget, M. Goldstein, Nathaniel Lee Jones, Pippa Brooks

//Clockwise from top: With Joe + Duke Brooks; Jimmy Page + Jeff Dexter; Joe, Duke + Pippa Brooks with Tommy Roberts; Caz Facey with...J+D! These photos: Pippa Brooks.//

There were big smiles for Tommy Roberts at the midsummer’s eve party to celebrate the publication of my new book Mr Freedom – Tommy Roberts: British Design Hero.

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Tags: Adelita, Amber Butchart, Bruce Marcus, Caz Facey, Chris Salewicz, Clive Jennings, Daisy de Villeneuve, Derek Boshier, Eve Ferret, Gerald Tilling, Hamish McAlpine, Ian Bodenham, Ian Johns, Jan de Villeneuve, Jane Roberts, Jeff Dexter, Jenny Ross, Jimmy Page, John Ingham, John Pearse, Johnny Deluxe, Julie Logan, Justin de Villeneuve, Katherine Higgins, Keith Roberts, Kevin Rowland, Kirsty Hislop, Laura Kitty, Leslie Poole, Liz Egglestone, Mandi Martin, Mark Powell, Mark Summerfield, Martin Cole, Natalie Gibson, Nick Abrahams, Nick Logan, Nisha Thirkell, Pamina Caruso Brassey, Paula McGinley, Pete Barrett, Pinkitessa, Pippa Brooks, Robert Ashton, Robert Orbach, Siobhan Fahey, Tapper Zukie, Trevor Mill, Two Columbia Road

We knew there was going to be a bit of a turn-out because the RSVPs ran way past the 100 mark on the day the invites were dispatched, but I don’t think any of us involved in Lloyd Johnson: The Modern Outfitter expected such a huge gathering for last night’s private view.

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Tags: Caitlin Smyth, Jeff Dexter, Lois Gabrin, Manca Bajec, Nobby GRaham, Paul Young, Peter Boutwood, Pippa Brooks, Robert Elms

Pippa Brooks has captured a section of Kate Moross’s video installation at the current Mindful Of Art exhibition.

I commissioned Kate to come up with a visual accompaniment to my DJ set at Glastonbury this summer, and am blown away by her achievement in manipulating and activating artwork by Barney Bubbles.

Read Pippa’s report from the show here.

Mindful Of Art is at the Old Vic Tunnels until Tuesday (September 27). Details here. Catch it if you can

Tags: Kate Moross, Mindful Of Art, Old Vic Tunnels, Pippa Brooks

Nathaniel Lee Jones and Pippa Brooks have created a world of wonder with their M. Goldstein stand at the Battersea Decorative Fair.

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Tags: Battersea Decorative Fair, Davina McCall, Emporium, Jon Hale, M. Goldstein, Nathaniel Lee Jones, Pippa Brooks, Reginald Alan Westaway, Rodney Bewes