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It was this link that Ian was particulary interested in not least as it really connected London and New York - the theme of Ian’s 2013 show. “I wish I was alive and in New York around this time, it feels so exciting, and everyone had an attitude of
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Sometimes, denim has helped define an era. In 1975, for example, the musicians who hung around a New York bar called CBGB started to crop their hair and rip their jeans. The look was spotted by musician and designer Malcolm McLaren, who adapted it i
It was a bassist, Richard Hell, in the band Television who sparked the onset of punk denim style when he paired his cropped hair with a combination of ripped t-shirts and jeans. This was quickly spotted by Malcolm McLaren, who was over in New York t
The Doors also began to adopt this style, albeit in a stripped down fashion. Their manager Danny Fields, a mainstay of Andy Warhol’s Factory scene, saw another band, The Ramones, play in a Bowery basement sporting another incarnation of this rapidly
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As well as the simple, ferocious nature of their music and stage presence, he was equally struck by their style: “It was perfect, classic. What better than jeans, a black leather jacket, and a white t-shirt? It’s an easy and enduring look and costum
Warhol said of the fabric: “I wish I could invent something like blue jeans. Something to be remembered for.” Of course, he went on to design the jeans close-up cover for the Stones’ Sticky Fingers album.  
With his Record Store installation, Ian Berry celebrates this marriage of denim and rock history. He also makes a personal tribute to the heyday of the vinyl album. The work highlights the struggling retail sector, impacted by the digital download a
His work lovingly recreates a display of classic LPs that had a heavy influence both on what music is today, and denim - from obvious links with bands who used denim in their album cover design, and to Woodstock where it was said: There were only tw
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