Apologies for not posting for a while; I am currently focusing energies on my book Legacy: The story of The Face, which is published by Thames & Hudson in autumn 2017.

Launched in 1980 by print publishing pioneer Nick Logan – the editor of the NME during its ’70s glory years, the man who also founded Smash Hits, Arena, Arena Homme Plus, Frank and Deluxe – The Face magazine brought the news on the dizzying developments of popular culture for two decades.

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Tags: Another, Arena, Arena Homme Plus, Central Saint Martins, Corinne Day, Deluxe, Emap, Frank, Gavin Hills, GQ, Julie Logan, Kimberley Leston, Love, Nick Logan, NME, Pop, Ray Petri, Smash Hits, The Gentlewoman, Wallpaper

//Cover, Man About Town SS16. Otto in Buffalo hat and Rigby & Peller bra (prototype for Nostalgia Of Mud, 1982). Photography: Alasdair McLellan. Styling: Olivier Rizzo//

//Above left: Frankie in Buffalo hat, white Nike socks and my George Cox Diano creepers. Right: Natalie in Malcolm McLaren’s Chico hat (Witches, 1983), Buffalo jacket (Nostalgia Of Mud, 1982) and Bondage Trousers (Seditionaries, 1976). Photography: Alasdair McLellan. Styling: Olivier Rizzo. Hair: Duffy: Make Up: Lynsey Alexander. Man About Town SS16//

On a warm London afternoon last July I enjoyed a meeting with Ben Reardon, editor-in-chief of the biannual Man About Town, the magazine’s senior fashion editor Danny Reed and Young Kim of the Malcolm McLaren Estate.

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Tags: Alasdair McLellan, Alexander Trocchi, Ben Reardon, Bravo, Buffalo Gals, Danny Reed, Diano, Gallery International, George Cox, Helen And Desire, Honey, Idea Books, Man About Town, Natalie Westley, Olivier Rizzo, Olympia Press, Sado sex For The Seventies, Smash Hits, Wally Wood, Young Kim