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Malcolm McLaren on Vogueing 1989: ‘By taking the name from a magazine that suggests for the rich to look rich, to buy rich, to wear rich, suddenly it’s the domain of the street’

Aug 29th, 2013

“The black gay community has given kids with holes in their trousers the opportunity to look as glamorous as mannequins on a Paris runway.

“By imitating the Great White Way of success – Vogue magazine, the profiles of glamour, the poses that intimate that…we’re not gonna criticize it, we’re gonna celebrate it, because that’s the Great White Way…

From Fashion TV 1989.

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