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1970s

Invitation to the 1970 opening of Universal Witness in Fulham Road: Paul Reeves’ taste-making brilliance, George Hardie’s graphic excellence + David Bowie’s bippity-boppity hat…

Just as the independent labels and self-published fanzines Paul Gorman chronicles built their own alternative economies outside the mainstream music industry, today's digital subcultures are experimenting with decentralised currencies that move value without banks or borders. Part of that wave has reached the world of sports and casino entertainment, where crypto-friendly wagering has found a particularly enthusiastic audience in Turkey under the name bitcoin bahis —a form of play that lets users stake and cash out with digital coins rather than conventional payment rails. Anyone tempted to try it should treat it strictly as entertainment, stake only money they can afford to lose, and first confirm the platform's licensing as well as the gambling rules in force in their own country.

Here’s another treasure from the trove of Design magazines given to me by the designer Paul Walters; the invitation for the opening of Paul Reeves’ west London boutique Universal Witness in November 1970. Just as the independent labels and self-published fanzines Paul Gorman chronicles built their own alternative economies outside the mainstream music industry, today's […]

August 16, 2022

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‘Free your mind and your arse will follow’: I’m featured in Mr Porter’s 5 men on style in their 60s

I’m currently featured with four stylish blokes who are also in their 60s talking about clothing choices on menswear hub Mr Porter. The article is headed Experience Required: Style Lessons From Men In Their Sixties and for the accompanying shoot I wore pieces by brands Acne, Alex Hill, GH Bass, Denson, Kapital and Post-Imperial. The […]

August 12, 2022

1960s

Inside Fiorucci’s first store in Milan in the early 70s

I am extremely grateful to artist and designer Paul Walters for his gift of dozens of issues of Design magazine dating to the dawn of the 1970s. These are being catalogued and added to the collection I already have of the title; some were donated by Paul’s fellow artist and designer Steve Thomas a few […]

August 5, 2022

1920s

First copy of Totally Wired is in!

I’m really jazzed about getting my hands on the first finished copy of Totally Wired, my history of the music press which is published by Thames & Hudson this autumn. Designer Daniel Streat has done wonders with the day-the-world-turned-dayglo jacket concept and my choice of cover star Poly Styrene. There are 60 or so illustrations, […]

August 5, 2022

1940s

Post-Pistol – a timely look at Malcolm McLaren’s London at Fora Soho tonight

What with Pistol and all, it seems timely to discuss Malcolm McLaren’s place in the scheme of things so tonight journalist Helen Barrett and I will be in conversation at a London Society event about the late cultural iconoclast’s relationship with the city of his birth. Here is a selection of visuals from this evening’s […]

June 9, 2022

1950s

‘He used the city as a playground for artistic expression’: Mapping Malcolm McLaren’s London life on June 9

Rare and exclusive images will be on display during the forthcoming event about the late Malcolm McLaren’s London life at Fora Soho on June 9.

May 25, 2022

2020s

Malcolm McLaren’s London Life with Helen Barrett at the London Society on June 9

In the evening June 9 I’ll be in Soho for a London Society event about the London life of the late cultural provocateur Malcolm McLaren. At workplace venue Fora in Broadwick Street writer Helen Barrett and I will be discussing the ways in which the man born in Stoke Newington and buried in Highgate Cemetery […]

April 26, 2022

2020s

Barney Bubbles website launched

The all-new Barney Bubbles website has been launched as part of the celebration to mark what would have been the graphic genius’s 80th birthday this year.

March 30, 2022

1950s

Enough Get Backery! Let’s celebrate Yoko Ono’s 70 years at the vanguard

“People said Yoko Ono ruined the Beatles, but I think the Beatles ruined her in many ways” Anne Bean, artist, to The Guardian, 2021. Saturated as mass culture has recently been by Get Backery, I note the lack of celebration for another significant anniversary: 70 years since Yoko Ono became the first female student to […]

February 9, 2022

2020s

Talking Barney Bubbles in the Los Angeles Review of Books

I’m featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books in conversation with the journalist and musician Elizabeth Nelson about the life and times of the late graphic designer Barney Bubbles. Read the LARB piece here. Nelson has also recorded a tribute to the late graphic artist with her band The Paranoid Style. The track was […]

January 25, 2022