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It’s always a pinch-me-moment to be asked to speak on the stellar CCC BA at @bafcsm. This was the third time I’ve been asked over the years, and the students were great: bushy-tailed, smart, astute.

I spoke about clubs, subculture, signs and people who make shit happen through the mediums of fashion, art and the underground, highlighting that there’s longstanding connections – across scenes and spaces and time. 

As ever, an idea I live by – that culture is a text – served as the through line. I won’t make the connections too explicit here (you had to be in the lecture) but I will share some snapshots. 

“Together, object and meaning constitute a sign, and within any one culture, such signs are assembled, repeatedly, into characteristic forms of discourse. However, when the bricoleur relocates the significant object in a different position within that discourse, using the same overall repertoire of signs, or when that object is placed within a different ensemble, a new discourse is constituted, a different message conveyed.” – John Clarke (1976) in ‘Resistance through rituals’

💓 Toscani, “Condoms”, Spring/Summer 1991 
💖 i-D, The Adventure Issue, 1988 @simonfoxton 
🖤 @affxwrks SS19
💜 “Gay Semiotics” (1977) Hal Fischer
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💚 @christophernemeth_official 1983
🧡SS25 ‘K-dart’ pullover; Stüssy ‘Displacement’ collab, 2013; Stüssy collab w. Machine-A, 2015
💜 Richard Torry in his own knitwear, 1977
🖤 Lloyds Johnson, from Johnsons, The Face, no. 77, September 1986, styled by Stephen Linard
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I was super lucky to help assist curating @johndove.and.mollywhite with @paulstolpergallery and meet so many amazing people and artists ⭐️ so much fun and feeling super grateful 🖤 special thanks to Paul and all of his team and family!
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