Next week I will be taking part in a panel discussion on the fashion legacy of the late cultural iconoclast Malcolm McLaren at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts.

The other participants in the chat – chaired by Young Kim of the Malcolm McLaren Estate – are Louis Vuitton menswear artistic director and McLaren/Westwood collector and expert Kim Jones and Ben Reardon, editor of Man About Town; the new issue of his magazine contains a huge section dedicated to McLaren’s stylistic forays with and without Vivienne Westwood, including a fashion story photographed by Alasdair McLellan and styled by Olivier Rizzo and my essay Been There Done That Going Back.

The panel will be followed by the launch of Man About Town S/S 16 in the ICA Bar in partnership with specialist dealer Idea Books.

Tickets for the event are £7/£8 available here.

Tags: Alasdair McLellan, Ben Reardon, ICA, Idea Books, Kim Jones, Louis Vuitton, Man About Town, Olivier Rizzo, Vivienne Westwood, Young Kim

//The simulation of the Seditionaries facade in industrial materials provided the entry and exit point for models on the runway today//

//With rings representing the positions where designer Ben Kelly exposed air conditioning vents to view, Kim Jones replaced the diagonal bar which occupied the central square over the door with the trademark Vuitton ‘V’//

//Ben Kelly’s portfolio shot of the facade he designed and installed at 430 King’s Road in December 1976//

Amid the references to the late Christopher Nemeth in today’s Paris show of the Louis Vuitton A/W 15 menswear collection (see my last post), artistic director Kim Jones used the staging to pay subtle homage to the two great maverick figures of London street culture – namely Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood and specifically their 70s punk store Seditionaries.

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Tags: Ben Kelly, Catherine McDermott, Christopher Nemeth, Covent Garden, Judy Blame, Kim Jones, London University Of The Arts, Long Acre, Louis Vuitton, Mark Lebon, Nellee Hooper, Paul Howie, Vivienne Westwood

//Heroes by Mark Lebon for i-D Bible 1988. Styling by Judy Blame and Christopher Nemeth//

I’m looking forward to participating in ShowStudio’s live broadcast discussion of today’s Louis Vuitton A/W 15 menswear show in Paris.

Vuitton artistic director Kim Jones has been trailing the show on his Instagram feed with tantalising hints as to the direction and content. Jones’ A/W 15 collaborators include Judy Blame, Nellee Hooper and Mark Lebon – all names associated with the late shoemaker John Moore’s magical 80s north-east London art/fashion space The House Of Beauty & Culture.

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Tags: Christopher Nemeth, Commes des Garcons, John Flett, John Moore, Judy Blame, Kasia Maciejowska, Kim Jones, Louis Vuitton, Mark Lebon, Nellee Hooper, Richard Torry, The House Of Beauty & Culture, The Selby, Tokyo

“More than anyone, Malcolm McLaren bursts the definitions as to what exactly constitutes an artist.”
Yves Aupetitallot, curator at Magasin, the Centre National d’Art Contemporain, in the introduction to Art In Pop

Due to popular demand, the run of Art In Pop – the French exhibition about the intermingling of artistic practice with popular music where the main space is dedicated to the work of Malcolm McLaren – has been extended by a month.

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Tags: Alix Lambert, Bow Wow Wow, Captain Beefheart, Daniel Johnston, Genesis Breyer P. Orridge, Goldsmith's, Grenoble, Hiroshi Fujiwara, John Armleder, John Miller, Kim Jones, Louis Vuitton, Magasin, Marco Pirroni, Paul Burgess, Sex Pistols, Ted Polhemus, Vivienne Westwood, Young Kim, Yves Aupetitallot