Isobel Van Dyke is a freelance journalist covering fashion, music, nightlife and queer culture. She has written for the likes of British Vogue, Elle, Dazed, i-D, The Face, and was most recently a features writer at ES Magazine.
’s ‘Blitz Kids’ pioneered to the extreme during the late 1970s and 1980s. Spearheading this movement was Australian performance artist and fashion designer Leigh Bowery, who had a strictly enforced code of entrance for his short-lived but infamous Soho nightclub, Taboo: ‘Dress as if your life depends on it, or don’t bother.’opened at the Fashion and Textile Museum in Bermondsey, paying tribute to Taboo and those who inhabited the world around it.
‘Make-up became another tool in the quest for reinvention and individuality. Clubbers practised at home until they reached professional levels of application and experimentation,’ she continues. ‘Competition and rivalry meant nothing was too extreme.’ This would range from artist Matthew Glamorre painting his teeth with nail polish to the experimental work of Swedish make-up artist Jalle Bakke, whose diaries are on show in the new exhibition.
Spaces like Taboo provided a dark, dingy, but beloved queer utopia. Those who were unable to express their truest self during daylight hours could become whoever they wanted to be under the cover of nighttime. Through fashion, make-up and hair, wearers were able to experiment with different – and perhaps more accurate – representations of their inner beings, with a vital sense of playfulness.Though Bowery died in 1994, his and The Blitz Kids’ influence on culture has endured to this day.
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