Malcolm McLaren

A job at Vivienne Westwood’s shop made me a Sex Pistol | Glen Matlock
Glen Matlock went into the late fashion designer’s store looking for a pair of shoes and found a career in music and rebellion
Glen Matlock
01, Jan, 2023 @10:30 AM

Dame Vivienne Westwood: fashion designer dies aged 81
Iconoclastic British designer rose to prominence by outfitting the Sex Pistols as punk took off in the 1970s
Alyx Gorman and Sian Cain
30, Dec, 2022 @7:52 AM

Remembering Vivienne Westwood: ‘The rebel who was never without a cause’
Jess Cartner-Morley recalls meeting the anti-establishment fashion designer and political activist who shaped punk culture and street style
Jess Cartner-Morley
30, Dec, 2022 @12:30 AM

Vivienne Westwood: her life and career – in pictures
A look at the famous fashion designer’s greatest moments after her death at the age of 81
Greg Whitmore
29, Dec, 2022 @9:39 PM

‘Grace Jones was in a state’: legendary producer Trevor Horn relives his mega-hits
From Frankie Goes to Hollywood to Grace Jones, ABC and Tatu, he gave pop some of its greatest, most forward-looking moments. He also sang for prog rockers Yes. The trailblazing knob-twiddler recalls his best – and worst – decisions
Alexis Petridis
24, Oct, 2022 @4:09 PM

A new start after 60: ‘I started to experiment upcycling old clothes – and they sold’
Herbie Mensah was a shopaholic soul boy who modelled for Vivienne Westwood and made a single with Pete Waterman. After 20 years working in social care, he has returned to his first love with a stall at Portobello Market
Paula Cocozza
10, Oct, 2022 @6:00 AM

Wake Up Punk review – memorabilia-burning punk progeny fails to check his privilege
This documentary about Joe Corré, the son of Vivienne Westwood and the late Malcolm McLaren, is a strangely listless and unlikable affair
Peter Bradshaw
04, May, 2022 @2:00 PM

'I wanted to be a living work of art': why Jordan is the queen of punk rock style
Adam Ant claimed she invented punk, with a take on clothes that still shocks more than 40 years later. Now, as Maisie Williams plays her in Danny Boyle’s new series Pistol, Jordan’s story is finding a new audience
Lauren Cochrane
06, Apr, 2021 @7:11 AM

The Life and Times of Malcolm McLaren review – fallouts and fabulous disasters
From avant-garde fashion with Vivienne Westwood to the Sex Pistols to hip-hop … Paul Gorman pins down the talents of a disruptive visionary
Fiona Sturges
08, May, 2020 @8:00 AM

The Life and Times of Malcolm McLaren by Paul Gorman review - punk's king of chaos
New biography chases down oddly elusive punk promoter
Sean O’Hagan
06, Apr, 2020 @6:00 AM

Jordan, the face of punk: 'The things I wore made people apoplectic'
She was the rubber-knickered peroxide bombshell who put the sex into the Pistols. Now she’s written a memoir of her years causing outrage at the heart of punk
Paul Tierney
23, Apr, 2019 @1:12 PM

Giant nappies, CD burning and 'perv bops': when girl bands go wrong
The history of girl group’s problematic pasts, from the shocking undertones of teen punks Bow Wow Wow to boycotting presidents and bloodied tampons
Leonie Cooper
08, Jan, 2019 @9:00 AM
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