Paul Gorman On The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren rose to fame in the early Seventies as the manager of the Sex Pistols. With his partner, Dame Vivienne Westwood, he invented punk fashion. Their London boutiques, World’s End and Nostalgia of Mud, proved forerunners of the concept store. Paul Gorman – author of the new biography, The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren (Constable) – discusses the ways in which fashion fueled McLaren’s multifaceted work and how he helped to catapult music movements - including punk, the New Romantics, hip hop, Voguing, world music and C-pop - from the margins to mainstream. Gorman ponders McLaren’s influence on Westwood, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. He also considers what the late polymath would make of the pandemic.

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