Malcolm McLaren

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Malcolm McLaren, the late rotter, introduces Conan O’Brien, in 1995, to his punkish insouciance.

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Trailer for the Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle. Far better than the actual movie.

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The final major lecture by that Pistols-promoting Malcolm McLaren.

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After watching John Samson’s infamous, trippy 1977 documentary, “Dress for Pleasure,” which profiles leather, rubber and vinyl fetishists, I don’t really have any better idea why some people gain sexual gratification from dressing in these materials. But it’s still a powerful movie that’s hard to look away from. It also gives a glimpse into Malcolm McLaren’s SEX clothing shop in London and serves as a pretty great fashion documentary of the type of punk wear that his partner Vivienne Westwood later brought to the mainstream. I would point out that several bare breasts make this film NSFW, but if you’re watching fetish documentaries at your desk, you obviously stopped caring long ago. (Thanks to The Documentarian.)

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Serge Gainsbourg: "Ideal woman."

The French anti-fashion designer Isabel Marant is all the rage this year, and while I’m in no position to judge her work, I do know a really cheeky quote machine when I hear one. I came across a recent article about her on the Huffington Post, which reprinted her comment about the legendary late French film star and singer Serge Gainsbourg, who was also a crazy drunk.

Marant, whose mother was a model and father a businessman, has combined both her parents’ passions into a large and still-blooming career. She also says lots of contradictory, hypocritical and highly amusing things. (When I was collecting info about her, I also came across this announcement regarding her New York store that opened earlier this year; it was written by Leslie Price, a very bright former colleague who always seemed to know a million things about a million things.) Here’s an excerpt from an entertaining article about Marant in British fashion magazine Love:

“‘I like the way that in 1985 you decided, inspired by a teenage crush on Malcolm McLaren, to start making clothes out of dishcloths, and I like the way that you say ‘but the dishcloths are really nice in France’ as if that makes a difference…I like that way you say, ‘Big breasts and lips. No! I hate those girls. I hate famous women. My ideal woman is Serge Gainsbourg. Not that he was a woman.'”

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