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1980s

‘Punk will come back in new forms always because the attitude is so very, very good; it’s to do with people doing things for themselves, controlling their own methods and their own culture’: Malcolm McLaren 1982

This is an extract from an interview with the late Malcolm McLaren in October 1982, conducted just after he and design partner Vivienne Westwood had shown their fashion collection Punkature. As the promulgator, initially through music and fashion and then into other forms from film and art to design and media, McLaren defined Punk as […]

January 18, 2016

1970s

”I love the book… your work cascades over the decades’: David Bowie’s last email to Derek Boshier

I just had to write and tell you how much I love the book that has just been published. Your work really cascades over the decades and is utterly real and convincing. Extract of email from David Bowie to Derek Boshier, November 2015 I guess it can be told now. David Bowie was at one […]

January 12, 2016

1960s

Indefatigable Ian Harris + The Earth: Pop culture maverick’s 60s rock roots come to light

Ian Harris is one of those London characters who turns up at various stages in the capital’s post-war pop culture narrative.

January 10, 2016

1990s

I’ve picked Shop for i-D’s list of legendary London stores

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 […]

November 9, 2015

1970s

When The Runaways guitarist Lita Ford raffled her McLaren/Westwood I Groaned With Pain t-shirt

I am indebted to IG pal and fan of this blog Kjell Magnusson for this 1977 magazine photo of The Runaways’ guitarist Lita Ford presenting her I Groaned With Pain t-shirt for a raffle in Swedish teen title Poster. In the light of the revelations about the abusive nature of the group’s relationship with the […]

October 5, 2015

1970s

Eddie, Elvis + Gene: Let It Rock’s glitter-printed tailored and customised t-shirts based on James Dean’s in Rebel Without A Cause

Thanks to Mr Mondo for turning me onto Glam Idols, a goldmine of early 70s music and fashion images. Lovingly presented and well credited, many of the photographs on the feed derive from continental European publications, like the 1972 shot above of a German model in a glitter t-shirt from Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s […]

September 18, 2015

2010s

Weld: Beguiling Brian Griffin considers fashion + feminism in Disegno

//Left: Top in blue suede, JW Anderson for Loewe. Right: White cotton shirt and blue flared trousers, both Kenzo// Photographer Brian Griffin rarely fails to beguile, as evinced by these portraits from a series produced with stylist Emma Clifton for architectural/design/fashion magazine Disegno earlier this year.

August 13, 2015

1970s

‘Gorman sidesteps the obvious’: Praise from Gwarizm for my contribution to PRINT @ SHOWStudio

It’s flattering to receive praise from a tastemaker of the standing of Gary Warnett, who has posted on his Gwarizm blog about my recent cult magazine chat with SHOWStudio editor Lou Stoppard for her Print project.

August 6, 2015

1970s

Lipstick: Read Perry Ogden on the style magazine he launched at Eton in 1979

The next instalment of SHOWStudio’s cult magazine series PRINT is an interview with photographer Perry Ogden about the extraordinary circumstances which led him to launch the style magazine Lipstick while he was an 18-year-old attendee at Eton College.

August 3, 2015

1960s

PRINT @SHOWStudio: Interviewed by Lou Stoppard and shots from my magazine archive

The launch of SHOWStudio’s new series PRINT features an interview with me by editor Lou Stoppard about my magazine archive. There is also a section dedicated to images from the archive, including front covers, spreads and ads.

July 21, 2015

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