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1970s

Anarchist, Situationist + Yippie texts + an army munitions handbook: Fashion graduate Imogen Hunt unearths the radical roots of Seditionaries’ incendiary Vive le Rock/Punk Rock Disco design

//Front and back of Vive le Rock/Punk Rock Disco and the radical political and military texts used as source material for the design// There were T-shirts left over from the Wembley Rock & Roll revival festival in our cupboards in South Clapham; we had to do something with them. Sid Vicious liked them just the […]

August 6, 2015

2010s

Long-awaited monograph Derek Boshier: Rethink/Re-entry to be published by Thames & Hudson in October

“As an artist Derek Boshier has never lost his sense of wonder at the world” – David Hockney The publication date of Derek Boshier: Rethink/Re-entry – the monograph of the great British artist I have edited – is confirmed as October 5. Published by Thames & Hudson with a preface by David Hockney, Rethink/Re-entry contains […]

June 19, 2015

1920s

Icteric’s influence on the Sex shop t-shirt You’re Gonna Wake Up One Morning And Know What Side Of The Bed You’ve Been Lying On!

A few years ago I attempted a dissection of the intriguing elements of the culture-shock t-shirt You’re Gonna Wake Up One Morning And Know What Side Of The Bed You’ve Been Lying On!, produced by Bernie Rhodes, Malcolm McLaren and Gerry Goldstein for sale in Sex at 430 King’s Road in the autumn of 1974. […]

June 18, 2015

1970s

AJ article on 430 caps a busy week packed with DIY Cultures, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Apartamento et al

It’s been a busy and satisfying week, rounded off by publication today in the Architects Journal of an essay of mine on the cultural significance of 430 King’s Road.

May 15, 2015

1950s

‘This country is run by a group of Fascists’: When Malcolm McLaren met Sweet Gene Vincent backstage at The Marquee

//Clockwise from top left: Gene Vincent with one of The Houseshakers, Magnet Club, Chelmsford, UK, February 1971. Photo: http://gene.vincent.fanclub.voila.net; Let It Rock assistant in Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps top, Wembley Stadium, August 5, 1972. Photo: Masayoshi Sukita; Vincent’s quote as featured on the Sex t-shirt You’re Gonna Wake Up, 1974// ‘Gene Vincent for me […]

April 27, 2015

1970s

430 Kings Road: In the back of Mr Freedom, Paradise Garage + Let It Rock 1969 – 1972

Preparation for my paper at Ben Kelly’s interior design symposium Dead Or Alive has coincided with the refurbishment of the Worlds End shop at 430 King’s Road in Chelsea. The address is the subject of my talk; I’ll be detailing the history of 430 and how and why it was an important social and cultural […]

February 28, 2015

2010s

Potential Architecture at Ambika P3

This handsome fold-out poster is for the exhibition Potential Architecture, which opens at London’s Ambika P3 on March 11.

February 27, 2015

1970s

Talking Interiors with The Photo Kid tonight: International Orange – When Attitudes Become Form

Looking forward to this evening’s lecture by designer Ben Kelly at his alma mater, the Royal College Of Art.

February 4, 2015

1960s

Curating: Art In Pop – including the Malcolm McLaren show – open for another month

“More than anyone, Malcolm McLaren bursts the definitions as to what exactly constitutes an artist.” Yves Aupetitallot, curator at Magasin, the Centre National d’Art Contemporain, in the introduction to Art In Pop Due to popular demand, the run of Art In Pop – the French exhibition about the intermingling of artistic practice with popular music […]

January 13, 2015

2010s

Desirable ties + lots more from East London’s exuberant EsDes

I’m really proud of my niece Esme Bradbury, whose exuberant handmade designs via her label EsDes have received a boost with inclusion at the Craft Council’s Established East London pop up shop at Westfield Stratford.

December 19, 2014

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