Steve Strange's Blitzed

Photograph © Andy Rosen www.andyrosen.comGeorge and Steve Strange, Blitz 1980
I often wish I was a few years older and I could have gone to the Blitz!  I love it that a group of flamboyant teenagers created a movement that changed the face of British clubbing.  A lot of the original Blitz Kids are still very well known in fashion, music and art and include Boy George, Spandau Ballet (Blitz

Back to the Eighties

Marilyn and George, Blitz 1979
After posting pictures of hats yesterday, I remembered a few other clubbing pictures from the early Eighties, some featuring some rather fabulous headgear.  The pictures are from the Blitz and the Camden Palace.  I love the way everyone made a such huge effort with their clothes and make-up.  I think they all look amazing.  I wish people still dressed up like this

Fashion's Most Wanted Interview - Christos Tolera

Christos ToleraArtist
Born in 1962, Christos grew up in Islington and Dalston, London.  A man of many talents - he was co-lead singer in arty Latin band Blue Rondo a la Turk with Chris Sullivan, a model, an actor, a club promoter, an interior designer and  now an acclaimed artist.

A leading light in London's clubland and one of the original Blitz Kids, at eighteen years-old he had already