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#1 2024-12-07 13:08:56
- An Unseen Scene
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London deaign creatives went paych after Ivy
Reading this today was interesting.
Seeing how the London publishing creatives went from Modish to Ivy to psych clothing upon seeing the Beatles.
I was intrigued at how instant the change was, Ivy just being another fasion step to be discarded.
https://mikedempsey.typepad.com/graphic_journey_blog/2010/02/fashion-feature.html
Moderator - please correct post title as I was thumb typing on phone and I do not see any option.
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#2 2024-12-10 06:26:12
- RobbieB
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Re: London deaign creatives went paych after Ivy
AUS- That's a good read and something I can relate to.
'I am a closet optimist' Leonard Cohen.
#3 2024-12-10 06:49:48
- AlveySinger
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Re: London deaign creatives went paych after Ivy
AUS,
What a great find. Sounds a bit like Graham Marsh
Interesting that LL Bean did suits.
#4 2024-12-13 02:35:01
- An Unseen Scene
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Re: London deaign creatives went paych after Ivy
Nice to find these extra bits of information.
I was watching the blu-ray of Small World of Sammy Lee the other day, to see the additional feature that shows the Soho sites used then compared to now. I envisage many of us find that interesting. I now have two blu-rays of that with slightly different features (one is part of the Gurney Slade set).
There is a Cecil Gee shown prominently at one point in Soho that had me paused to look at the items in the window. To my surprise they explained that bit of the street was recreated precisely in the studio and the Cecil Gee front built specifically for the film, indicating they had paid for that.
I like films showing Soho and London of the post-war to early 1960s - before the commercialisation took off.
I recently got and watched the wonderful film Night and the City which uses real London and Soho locations, covering that world of spivs, gambling, gangsters and the like. A great film that was a bit more expensive to find.
Last week was the blu-ray of All Night Long - the curious film with Patrick McGoohan as a Jazz Drummer. It really evokes the era in London of upper class funded private jazz clubs, back biting, music etc. It has Dave Brubeck, Tubby Hayes and Charlie Mingus all playing. The music is great. If not seen, it's fascinating.
Next will be Stanley Baker's The Criminal (reputedly based on his real friend from the London-Italian around Clerkenwell gangs). That has a Johnny Dankworth sound track. Then The Frightened City (Connery, post-Vince modelling, just before Bond). I like those British film-noir films. They evoke an interesting era now fading away from us, but still just about visible and memorable.
The Wrong Arm of the Law comedy film has a lot of great style, London locations, Bernard Cribbins as a very Mod looking Irish comedy gangster. I was at an event recently in Vauxhall park and thought to my self, this is where part of that film was done (the fairground I think).
Anyone know of films with late 50s/early 60s scenes of the King's Road? That is particularly hard to find.
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