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.
Category: Soho
New map in the New Year – Punk London: In The City 1975-78
I am collaborating with Herb Lester Associates on a new map – Punk London: In The City 1975-78 will be published in the New Year as a celebration of the movement which swept the capital 40 years ago and resonates today as an attitude throughout the world.
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 […]
‘The second nastiest little man I have ever met’ – John Deakin: Under The Influence + The Lure Of Soho
“The second nastiest little man I have ever met” – Barbara Hutton “He was a member of photography’s unhappiest minority whose members, while doubting its status as art, sometimes prove better than anyone else that there is no doubt about it” – Bruce Bernard The documentary portraiture of British fashion photographer John Deakin from the […]
Susie Bubble on Shop, Posh, Shopgirl + The Look’s first edition
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 […]
The Peter Small connection: George O’Dowd at Street Theatre, The Regal + The Foundry
I’ve been acting as a consultant to artist Lucy Harrison on her latest site specific project Carnaby Echoes, which focuses on the culturally fertile area of central London adjacent to Soho. With the starting point of the opening of Murray’s Club in Beak Street in 1913, Harrison is mounting her artistic response to 100 years […]
Photography: Soho Pam by Carla Borel
Regulars on both sides of various Soho bars having been mourning the familiar figure the vast majority of us knew simply as Pam. This portrait by photographer Carla Borel captures Pam’s charm, sweetness and light. And she’s in her element, outside The French. Alastair Choat, landlord of The Coach & Horses, is hosting the wake […]
The Look Of London: An illustrated guide to the city’s most influential fashion spots 1950-2000
Tomorrow (October 11) is the publication date of The Look Of London, my map collaboration with the pre-eminent modern guide-makers Herb Lester Associates. “This map is a reminder that London, with all its individuality and character, is still very exciting,” writes Paul Smith in the foreword; he opened at 44 Floral Street WC2 in 1979.
John Stephen: Progenitor of a custom-built design movement
“One day, ‘Carnaby Street’ could rank with ‘Bauhaus’ as a descriptive phrase for a design style and design legend.” Ken and Kate Baynes, Design, August 1966. Today is the seventh anniversary of Westminster Council’s dedication of a plaque in Carnaby Street to the late fashion retailer John Stephen, the 60s media darling dubbed “The £1m […]