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Film Club: 'Performance', a Mick Jagger classic and one of our absolute favourites!

February 23, 2021 16:40

It’s been said that this film, Performance, was too shocking for the 1960’s! Welcome to Flare Street Film Club, this week it's Performance... Starring Mick Jagger & Anita Pallenberg!
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Anita Pallenberg... Style icon, muse and enchantress of the 60's & 70's!

October 13, 2020 14:38

Our next instalments on the 'Babes Who Inspired Us' series, will be focusing on the ladies and muses of the 60's & 70's music scene...

First up in the series is one of our forever favourites, Anita Pallenberg.

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I Was Lord Kitchener's Valet.... 1960's London

March 7, 2019 16:53

I Was Lord Kitchener's Valet is the latest boutique to feature on our 'Babe's who inspire us' blog series! In the heart of 1960's swinging London was this wonderland of Victorian style clothing with a main focus on military uniforms!

"Eric Clapton was the first one to buy a military jacket early in 1966 when Cream's first album came out.

I'm sitting there one morning and in walked John Lennon, Mick Jagger and Cynthia Lennon. And I didn't know whether I was hallucinating… but it was real. And Mick Jagger bought a red Grenadier guardsman drummer's jacket, probably for about £4-5."

"So Mick Jagger bought this tunic and wore it on Ready Steady Go when the Stones closed the show by performing Paint it Black. The next morning there was a line of about 100 people wanting to buy this tunic… and we sold everything in the shop by lunchtime."

The name 'Lord Kitchener's Valet' was thought up by Ian Fisk just because we sold Victoriana. It conjured up images of Edwardian smoking jackets, top hats and canes and Birdcage Walk on Sunday - pure nostalgia.

"With incense burning, it was great, like paradise, you didn't know who was going to walk through the door."

Snippets from the interview with Robert Orbach in 2006. Read the full interview here: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/i/robert-orbach/

Check out our Pinterest board here full of heaps more pictures too!!

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