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 presentation.
The fourth-generation Londoner McLaren was seduced by the city from his earliest years, travelling to Soho to pick up on the latest youth fashions as a 13-year-old, having been introduced to the delights of the West End and in particular Selfridges department store as a boy by his domineering grandmother.
McLaren’s roamings around the capital by the age of just 25 – by which time he had attended at least eight art schools and attempted a film about the history of Oxford Street – make for the dizzying spaghetti junction of addresses alone.
Helen and I will be talking about the ways in which McLaren used the urban environment as the springboard for all manner of creative and subversive activities.
There are a few places left – kick-off is at 6.15 at Fora in Broadwick Street if you’re in the area.
Tickets and more details here.
Catch up with Helen’s work here.
