For people who have been affected by rock’n’roll in the 50s or pop music in the 60s, those things don’t go away they stay with you.
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So we’re not governed by those standards of how to dress if you’re an older person. Now all of us are older, and we’ve got all that heritage to look back on. But then there was the explosion of teenagers and rock’n’roll in the postwar years. When I was young and thought of people in their 40s and 50s, they seemed so ancient with their funny, old-fashioned, prewar clothes. The meaning of “age-appropriate dressing” has changed. Right: car coat, £350, star knit, £175, trousers, £150 Photograph: PR Left: double-breasted jacket, £475, dress shirt, £150, tie, £100, trousers, £150, pocket square, £50. I go into a hairdressers and say: “Can you cut my hair the way you did three months ago, please?”Īn outfit from the first Real Stars are Rare collection. I’ve tried growing it out and getting a normal person’s haircut, but it doesn’t do anything except get a bit longer. My hair just grows like this I don’t know what else to do with it. We got a lot of stick for it, but it only made us want to do it more. It was seen as being ephemeral, but it wasn’t. When I was in the Style Council, a lot of the middle-class press had a problem with us because we were working class and talked about wearing clothes. We got them made up in Burton.Ĭlothes are an important part of our culture.
The suits we wore may have looked good in photos, but in reality they were shocking. I was immersed in the mod thing, and I thought: “The band should look like this as well.” I thought it was important as a band to have a strong look of unity. The Clash had a strong look, with their paint-splattered clothes, and the Sex Pistols did too. Double-breasted jacket, £420, shirt, £120, pocket square, £50 Photograph: PRīands should have a strong look. An outfit from the first collection for Real Stars are Rare.
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