//Front cover, Elemental, The Earth, Rare Vinyl, 2016. Design: Ian Harris//
Ian Harris is one of those London characters who turns up at various stages in the capital’s post-war pop culture narrative.
From the SS16 menswear collections to the people flocking to Somerset House’s current celebration of The Jam, the aesthetic of “clean living under difficult circumstances” (as summarised by The Who’s first manager, Pete Meaden) is at one with what’s happening now in fashion…
Read the rest of my piece – with quotes from Dylan Jones of GQ/London Collections: Men, Soho tailor Mark Powell and Man About Town’s Ben Reardon – on the enduring appeal of Mod here.
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