“It was about rebellion, creativity, originality, being yourself and having a damn good time doing it”
– Graham Smith
Clare Thom, Boy George, Michele Clapton, 1980
These photographs are from photographer’s Graham Smith’s book of London club life, We Can be Heroes: Punks, Poseurs, Peacocks and People of a Particular Persuasion. There’s over 320 pages of fashion eye candy from that time and place.
Boy George
Clare Thom and Stephen Linard apparently on their way to see Spandau Ballet, 1981
“Meeting people like George O’Dowd and Judith Frankland who lived their fashion, I learned more in one year at the Blitz than my three years at Saint Martins”
– fashion designer Stephen Jones
Alternative Miss World, 1981
Chris Sullivan. The Blitz, 1980
Kim Bowen, 1980
Michele Clapton
St. Moritz club, Stevie Stewart, 1980
Stephen Linard, 1979
Camden Palace, opening night. Martim Kemp, Biddie and Eve, Steve Norman, 1981
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