Granny’s in Duke of York Square: Preview of the King’s Road Music + Fashion Trail
Last night saw a preview on a giant outdoor screen in Chelsea’s Duke Of York Square of a couple of the new films celebrating the golden age of London boutique culture.
Tag: Paradise Garage
All satin, no tat, 1971: Kansai Yamamoto, Michael Chow, David Parkinson, Tommy Roberts, Barney Wan et al
The joy of writing about a subject as rich as Tommy Roberts is that research turns up an apparently limitless supply of fabulous material. Even the tangential stuff – such as this from my archive, a spread from a 1971 Sunday Times Magazine – gets me going.
Memories of Dandie Fashions + Paradise Garage + a return to Granny’s
Filming continued yesterday for this summer’s King’s Road Fashion & Music Trail, which is is being launched to visitors to west London’s historic thoroughfare as part of Kensington & Chelsea’s InTransit festival in July. We will be covering all the boutique manifestations at 430 King’s Road; for a start I plumped for its incarnation as […]
Filming: Lloyd Johnson and Nigel Waymouth for the King’s Road Fashion + Music Trail
Yesterday filming started for this summer’s King’s Road Fashion & Music Trail, which is is being launched to visitors to west London’s historic thoroughfare as part of Kensington & Chelsea’s InTransit festival in July. The films of sites which have housed important boutiques in the story of rock & roll fashion will be accessible for […]
Club’s crowd-pulling cars (+ a chopper)
This feature on five owners of interesting automobiles comes from a time long before the banalities of Top Gear.
430 over six decades
These are exterior shots of the incarnations of 430 King’s Road since the early 60s.