Conducting the in conversation with Antony Price at London’s Fashion + Textile Museum earlier this week was fun.
Down-to-earth and witty as ever, Price was also generous with his background on the technical dash he has brought to garments from the days of Stirling Cooper at Kensington Market in 1968 to the Portuguese Man O’ War creation he produced for Baillie Walsh’s Cadbury Flake ad this year.
The chat kicked off a study day organised in conjunction with current exhibition Pop! Design Culture Fashion.
Later, Peter York squared the circle by hosting a panel including a couple of “Them” (as York’s October 1976 article characterised such individualists as Keith “from Smile” Wainwright, Andrew Logan and Price, who had a starring role in the feature).
Read my post on the significance of Them here.
Pop! Design Culture Fashion ends next week. Details here.
FTM photos Deborah Woolf. Visit her site here.
Peter Knock
October 25, 2012 at 3:14 pmI was in the Art Department of Harpers & Queen when my mate, Michael Hodgson (art editor) was laying out this “Them” feature.
(the half-tone with the day-glo second colour was his innovation)
Of course, the other guy on that spread is Michael Roberts -at that
time the last great fashion editor – his stuff for the Sunday Times
was so “on the money”and very witty too;always required reading.
My friend Michael at Harpers asked Peter York if he thought he might
be a “Them”? Peter, rather succinctly replied “If you have to ask, then you’re not…”