MENGLIGION "NEW BLITZ"

LONDON UNITED KINGDOM

BLITZ KIDS REVIVAL

THE BLITZ KIDS WERE A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO FREQUENTED THE TUESDAY CLUB-NIGHT AT BLITZ IN COVENT GARDEN, LONDON IN 1979-80, AND ARE CREDITED WITH LAUNCHING THE NEW ROMANTIC SUBCULTURAL MOVEMENT.

4 GREAT QUEEN STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, WC2,

BLITZ KIDS REVIVAL

BLITZ KIDS REVIVAL

LONDON UNITED KINGDOM

BLITZ KIDS REVIVAL

THE BLITZ KIDS WERE A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO FREQUENTED THE TUESDAY CLUB-NIGHT AT BLITZ IN COVENT GARDEN, LONDON IN 1979-80, AND ARE CREDITED WITH LAUNCHING THE NEW ROMANTIC SUBCULTURAL MOVEMENT.

4 GREAT QUEEN STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, WC2,

THE BLITZ KIDS

STEVE STRANGE AND RUSTY EGAN CO-HOSTED THESE EXCLUSIVE NIGHTS WITHOUT GIVING THEM A NAME, ACCORDING TO STRANGE'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, AND PUBLICISED THEM SOLELY BY WORD OF MOUTH. AN EMPHASIS ON STYLE WAS ENSURED BY ENFORCING A STRICT DRESS CODE AT THE DOOR. CRUCIALLY, THE BLITZ LAY BETWEEN TWO ART COLLEGES (ST MARTIN'S SCHOOL AND CENTRAL SCHOOL) AND IT BECAME A TESTBED FOR STUDENT FASHION DESIGNERS WHO SET LONDON ABLAZE DURING THE 1980S. THESE INCLUDED STEPHEN JONES, KIM BOWEN, FIONA DEALEY, STEPHEN LINARD, DAVID HOLAH, STEVIE STEWART, JOHN GALLIANO, DARLA JANE GILROY AND MORE. THE BLITZ BEGAN MAKING HEADLINES THANKS TO ITS OUTRAGEOUS STYLES OF CLOTHES AND MAKE-UP FOR BOTH SEXES, SUBSEQUENTLY DOCUMENTED BY GARY KEMP IN HIS 2009 FIRST-PERSON BOOK, I KNOW THIS MUCH, AND BY GRAHAM SMITH AND CHRIS SULLIVAN IN THEIR 2011 BOOK WE CAN BE HEROES: LONDON CLUBLAND 1976-1984.

OTHER CORE ATTENDEES INCLUDED BOY GEORGE, MARILYN, ALICE TEMPLE, PERRI LISTER, PRINCESS JULIA, PHILIP SALLON AND MARTIN DEGVILLE (LATER TO BE THE FRONTMAN OF TONY JAMES' SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK), SIOBHAN FAHEY (LATER A MEMBER OF BANANARAMA),[4] BIDDIE AND EVE (LONG-STANDING CABARET ACT AT THE BLITZ AS WINE BAR), PERRY HAINES (WHO BECAME CO-EDITOR OF THE EARLIEST ISSUES OF I-D MAGAZINE) AND CHRIS SULLIVAN (WHO FOUNDED AND RAN THE WAG CLUB IN SOHO FOR 19 YEARS).

THE TEAM OF STRANGE AS GREETER AND EGAN AS DJ CAME TOGETHER AT BILLY'S NIGHTCLUB IN SOHO IN AUTUMN 1978, WHEN THE POST-PUNK GENERATION FOUND THEMSELVES BORED WITH THE WHOLE NIHILIST PUNK GENRE, AS SMITH AND SULLIVAN RECORD. STRANGE AND EGAN INTRODUCED REGULAR ROXY MUSIC AND DAVID BOWIE NIGHTS AT BILLY'S AND, IN AN EFFORT TO FIND SOMETHING NEW AND COLOURFUL, THE DENIZENS TOOK TO WEARING BIZARRE HOME-MADE COSTUMES AND CLOTHING AND EMPHATIC MAKE-UP, PRESENTING A HIGHLY ANDROGYNOUS APPEARANCE. AFTER THREE MONTHS, DISAGREEMENTS WITH THE OWNER PROMPTED THIS GROUP OF KINDRED SPIRITS TO MOVE ON FROM BILLY'S – WHICH HAD EFFECTIVELY FORMALISED THE ONCE-A-WEEK CLUB-NIGHT. HELEN ROBINSON, WHO RAN THE SHOP PX AS THE FLAGSHIP FOR NEW ROMANTIC READY-TO-WEAR IN COVENT GARDEN, EMPLOYED STRANGE AS AN ASSISTANT AND IT WAS SHE WHO ENCOURAGED HIM AND RUSTY TO TRANSFER THEIR ENERGIES IN 1980 TO THE MORE ELITIST BLITZ WINE BAR IN GREAT QUEEN STREET.[6] OVER THE NEXT 20 MONTHS THEIR FASHION-LED TUESDAY CLUB-NIGHT WAS GRADUALLY ACKNOWLEDGED IN THE MEDIA AS HOME TO THE NEW ROMANTIC MOVEMENT AND PROMPTED THE "BLITZ KIDS" EPITHET IN MAINSTREAM NEWSPAPERS, LED BY THE DAILY MIRROR ON 3 MARCH 1980.

INSPIRED BY THE BLIZZ CLUB IN LONDON, ENGLAND IN THE '80S, THIS COLLECTION TAKES EVERYONE INTO THE WORLD OF PARTYING. A COLLECTION OF PEOPLE DUBBED THE BLITZ KIDS, FULL OF CLOTHES, MAKE-UP, HAIRSTYLING AND OBSESSION WITH THE LONDON NIGHTLIFE SCENE OF THE 80S. THIS COLLECTION TELLS THE LIVES OF TEENAGERS. YOUNG LONDONER WHO LOVES TO PARTY. AND BECOME INTOXICATED WITH FULL-FLEDGED COSTUMES SHOW YOUR POTENTIAL IN DRESSING UP TO BE THE MOST GARISH THE APPAREL IN THIS COLLECTION BRINGS TOGETHER ELEMENTS OF THE BLITZ KIDS TO CREATE A NEW LOOK BY ADOPTING A READY-TO-WEAR OUTFIT DESIGN CONCEPT. BOTH RAW AND GLAMOR COME TOGETHER IN EACH LOOK, RESULTING IN THIS COLLECTION.

INSPRIRATION

THE BLITZ KIDS

THE BLITZ COVENT GARDEN, LONDON IN 1979-80

A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO FREQUENTED THE TUESDAY CLUB-NIGHT AT BLITZ

THE BLITZ LAY BETWEEN TWO ART COLLEGES (ST MARTIN'S SCHOOL AND CENTRAL SCHOOL)

THE BLITZ KIDS WERE A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO FREQUENTED THE TUESDAY CLUB-NIGHT AT BLITZ IN COVENT GARDEN, LONDON IN 1979-80, t

IT BECAME A TESTBED FOR STUDENT FASHION DESIGNERS WHO SET LONDON ABLAZE DURING THE 1980S. NEW ROMANTIC MAKE UP

AND ARE CREDITED WITH LAUNCHING THE NEW ROMANTIC SUBCULTURAL MOVEMENT.

THAI WISDOM

THAI WISDOM

H A M M O C K A HAMMOCK IS A SLING MADE OF FABRIC, ROPE, OR NETTING,

THAI WISDOM

IT NORMALLY CONSISTS OF ONE OR MORE CLOTH PANELS, OR A WOVEN NETWORK OF TWINE OR THIN ROPE STRETCHED WITH ROPES BETWEEN TWO FIRM ANCHOR POINTS SUCH AS TREES OR POSTS.

THAI WISDOM : HAMMOCK

A HAMMOCK IS A SLING MADE OF FABRIC, ROPE, OR NETTING, SUSPENDED BETWEEN TWO OR MORE POINTS, USED FOR SWINGING, SLEEPING, OR RESTING. IT NORMALLY CONSISTS OF ONE OR MORE CLOTH PANELS, OR A WOVEN NETWORK OF TWINE OR THIN ROPE STRETCHED WITH ROPES BETWEEN TWO FIRM ANCHOR POINTS SUCH AS TREES OR POSTS. HAMMOCKS WERE DEVELOPED BY NATIVE INHABITANTS OF THE AMERICAS FOR SLEEPING, AS WELL AS THE ENGLISH.[1] LATER, THEY WERE USED ABOARD SHIPS BY SAILORS TO ENABLE COMFORT AND MAXIMIZE AVAILABLE SPACE, AND BY EXPLORERS OR SOLDIERS TRAVELLING IN WOODED REGIONS. EVENTUALLY, IN THE 1920S, PARENTS THROUGHOUT NORTH AMERICA USED FABRIC HAMMOCKS TO CONTAIN BABIES JUST LEARNING TO CRAWL. TODAY THEY ARE POPULAR AROUND THE WORLD FOR RELAXATION; THEY ARE ALSO USED AS A LIGHTWEIGHT BED ON CAMPING TRIPS. THE HAMMOCK IS OFTEN SEEN AS A SYMBOL OF SUMMER, LEISURE, RELAXATION AND SIMPLE, EASY LIVING.

A HAMMOCK IS A SLING MADE OF FABRIC, ROPE, OR NETTING, SUSPENDED BETWEEN TWO OR MORE POINTS, USED FOR SWINGING, SLEEPING, OR RESTING. IT NORMALLY CONSISTS OF ONE OR MORE CLOTH PANELS, OR A WOVEN NETWORK OF TWINE OR THIN ROPE STRETCHED WITH ROPES BETWEEN TWO FIRM ANCHOR POINTS SUCH AS TREES OR POSTS.

BRAND COMPETITION

TREND

SKETCH

BLITZ KIDS REVIVAL

THE BLITZ KIDS WERE A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO FREQUENTED THE TUESDAY CLUB-NIGHT AT BLITZ IN COVENT GARDEN, LONDON IN 1979-80, AND ARE CREDITED WITH LAUNCHING THE NEW ROMANTIC SUBCULTURAL MOVEMENT.

4 GREAT QUEEN STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, WC2,

SKETCH

FITTING

BLITZ KIDS REVIVAL

THE BLITZ KIDS WERE A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO FREQUENTED THE TUESDAY CLUB-NIGHT AT BLITZ IN COVENT GARDEN, LONDON IN 1979-80, AND ARE CREDITED WITH LAUNCHING THE NEW ROMANTIC SUBCULTURAL MOVEMENT.

4 GREAT QUEEN STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, WC2,

FITTING

BLITZ KIDS REVIVAL

THE BLITZ KIDS WERE A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO FREQUENTED THE TUESDAY CLUB-NIGHT AT BLITZ IN COVENT GARDEN, LONDON IN 1979-80, AND ARE CREDITED WITH LAUNCHING THE NEW ROMANTIC SUBCULTURAL MOVEMENT.

4 GREAT QUEEN STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, WC2,

FITTING

BLITZ KIDS REVIVAL

THE BLITZ KIDS WERE A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO FREQUENTED THE TUESDAY CLUB-NIGHT AT BLITZ IN COVENT GARDEN, LONDON IN 1979-80, AND ARE CREDITED WITH LAUNCHING THE NEW ROMANTIC SUBCULTURAL MOVEMENT.

4 GREAT QUEEN STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, WC2,

FITTING

BLITZ KIDS REVIVAL

THE BLITZ KIDS WERE A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO FREQUENTED THE TUESDAY CLUB-NIGHT AT BLITZ IN COVENT GARDEN, LONDON IN 1979-80, AND ARE CREDITED WITH LAUNCHING THE NEW ROMANTIC SUBCULTURAL MOVEMENT.

4 GREAT QUEEN STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, WC2,

LONDON UNITED KINGDOM

BLITZ KIDS REVIVAL

THE BLITZ KIDS WERE A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO FREQUENTED THE TUESDAY CLUB-NIGHT AT BLITZ IN COVENT GARDEN, LONDON IN 1979-80, AND ARE CREDITED WITH LAUNCHING THE NEW ROMANTIC SUBCULTURAL MOVEMENT.

4 GREAT QUEEN STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, WC2,

LONDON UNITED KINGDOM

BLITZ KIDS REVIVAL

THE BLITZ KIDS WERE A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO FREQUENTED THE TUESDAY CLUB-NIGHT AT BLITZ IN COVENT GARDEN, LONDON IN 1979-80, AND ARE CREDITED WITH LAUNCHING THE NEW ROMANTIC SUBCULTURAL MOVEMENT.

4 GREAT QUEEN STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, WC2,

LONDON UNITED KINGDOM

BLITZ KIDS REVIVAL

THE BLITZ KIDS WERE A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO FREQUENTED THE TUESDAY CLUB-NIGHT AT BLITZ IN COVENT GARDEN, LONDON IN 1979-80, AND ARE CREDITED WITH LAUNCHING THE NEW ROMANTIC SUBCULTURAL MOVEMENT.

4 GREAT QUEEN STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, WC2,

LONDON UNITED KINGDOM

BLITZ KIDS REVIVAL

THE BLITZ KIDS WERE A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO FREQUENTED THE TUESDAY CLUB-NIGHT AT BLITZ IN COVENT GARDEN, LONDON IN 1979-80, AND ARE CREDITED WITH LAUNCHING THE NEW ROMANTIC SUBCULTURAL MOVEMENT.

4 GREAT QUEEN STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, WC2,

LONDON UNITED KINGDOM

BLITZ KIDS REVIVAL

THE BLITZ KIDS WERE A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO FREQUENTED THE TUESDAY CLUB-NIGHT AT BLITZ IN COVENT GARDEN, LONDON IN 1979-80, AND ARE CREDITED WITH LAUNCHING THE NEW ROMANTIC SUBCULTURAL MOVEMENT.

4 GREAT QUEEN STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, WC2,

LONDON UNITED KINGDOM

THE BLITZ KIDS WERE A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO FREQUENTED THE TUESDAY CLUB-NIGHT AT BLITZ IN COVENT GARDEN, LONDON IN 1979-80, AND ARE CREDITED WITH LAUNCHING THE NEW ROMANTIC SUBCULTURAL MOVEMENT.