Woof,
Let's go along with your idea and then see what happens....

.....Oh it's a film about ivy, suede, mod clothing. I thought it was about John Simons and his retail history

....I wouldn't have put that shirt with that jacket

..... What I purchased from Squire was different from that

.....I like Paraboot, Vetra and Japanese denim. Why isn't that also shown

.....Oh, I wouldn't call that Ivy in my book

And here is my favourite...

.....Oh, it's just a promo film for what's on sale at Chiltern Street. I thought it would feature more about John.

hopefully, you get the point. We all have a view. We all want different things. We forget how difficult these things are to produce

All fair points, Alvey, certainly.

Alvey, you're talking out your tuchus. John Simons is contemptuous of pop stars. Whilst he is pleased it was made, and a degree of acknowledgement of his achievements has been achieved, he had no say in the content, and boy does it show. Mono(tonous) Media's stuff is just standard issue, box-ticking mediocrity with not a smidgen of surprise in anything they make. Many of us who have met John have quickly become aware that we are in the presence of someone with a unique perspective, with original insight, immersed in a distinctive London Jewish background that has coloured everything he says and thinks. It's not just clothes, it's a life, a culture, a personality.  There is a fantastic story to be told, a vanished world to be evoked but this script was like something a 16 year might come up with for their Media Studies GCSE. Like virtually everything that mod touches it was knuckle-scraping, slow-witted, pseudo-geezerdom of absolutely no worth.

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Alvey, I apologise. It was hormones, low blood sugar, poor sleep. Probably all three. Sending you warm wishes!

Remembering something on TV years ago in which chaps rambled on about Ben, Brutus and Bugger All, I still cannot find it in myself to watch this thing all the way through. 
A glimpse of a particular pair of brogues, though, did me a huge favour by reminding me I've gone right off brogues. 
Who is Dylan Jones?