Fashion Beast: Arena Homme + pays tribute to Malcolm McLaren’s collaboration with Alan Moore

Apr 22nd, 2020

//Introductory spread from the Fashion Beast feature in Arena Homme + 53, Summer/Autumn 2020//

//Above: Fashion Beast story, AH+ 53. Photography Drew Vickers; fashion Tom Guinness//

The new issue of Arena Homme + – which is available to read through Exact Editions here for those who can’t obtain physical copies – includes a 28-page extravaganza on Malcolm McLaren’s activities across cinema, fashion and music during the mid-80s.

With an extract from my new biography of McLaren, the feature homes in on Fashion Beast, the unrealised film collaboration with Britain’s dark magus of comic book writing Alan Moore. It also includes my interview with Moore as well as an ingenious fashion story photographed by Drew Vickers and styled by Tom Guinness.

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Tags: Alan Moore, Amanda Harlech, Andrea Linz, Arena Homme +, CBS Theatrical Films, Drew Vickers, Fashion Beast, Heavy Metal Surf Nazis, John Galliano, Lauren Hutton, Paul Frecker, Simon Withers, St Mark's Comics, St Mark's Place, Tom Guinness

A code for kicking against the pricks: THEM (Slight Return) with Peter York interview in Arena Homme +

Nov 17th, 2019

//Opening spread of my interview with Peter York, Arena Homme + Winter/Spring 2020. Portrait: David Sims//

//From the Them fashion story. Photography: Julien Martinez Leclerc; fashion: Tom Guinness//

The jury is out on this autumn’s relaunch of the print edition of venerated British style magazine The Face; as I suggested here it’s going to take more than one splashy issue to assess whether the proposition has legs as we enter the 2020s (next May will mark the 40th anniversary of the founding of The Face by Nick Logan).

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Tags: Arena Homme +, Ashley Heath, Berluti, Bottega Veneta, Brockhampton, David Sims, Fantastic Man, George MacKay, Gert Jonkers, Harpers & Queen, Joe Cole, Jop van Bennekom, Julien Martinez Leclerc, Kris Van Assche, Lawrence, Mark Leckey, neville Brody, New Order, Nick Logan, Peter York, Prada, Rex Orange County, Stephen Morris, The Face, Tom Guinness

Romantic revolt to change our lives: George Cox catwalk show and in-conversation celebrating 70 years of creepin’ at Port Eliot next week

Jul 21st, 2019

// In George Cox creepers: Malcolm McLaren, 430 King’s Road, January 1972. Photo: David Parkinson / Slowthai, Northampton, 2018. Photo: Ewen Spencer for Arena Homme + //

“Those blue suede shoes had a magical association that seemed authentic. They represented an age of desperate romantic revolt to change your life.”

Malcolm McLaren, notes on his life in fashion, 1997

I’m celebrating the 70th anniversary of the introduction of George Cox & Co’s first creeper at the Port Eliot Festival next week with Adam Waterfield, the fourth generation owner of the great independent British brand, and his son Alistair, a Central Saint Martins student and model who is very much involved in the family business.

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Tags: Adam Waterfield, Alistair Waterfield, Andrew Greaves, Arena Homme +, Central Saint Martins, Comme des Garçons, David Parkinson, Ellie Grace Cumming, Ewen Spencer, Fred Perry, George Cox, Glastonbury Festival, Harold The Ted, Jonathan Baron, Le Kilt, Lewis Leathers, Northampton, Olly Alexander, Port Eliot Festival, Sam Rock, Slowthai, Years And Years