You would meet your friends up at the clubs in Soho and Carnaby Street fitted in the middle of that scene. There were two different kinds of people: there were the rockers who looked like bikers and probably liked rock and roll, and the mods who were more modern and progressive in terms of their [...]
Journal entries about Fashion
Tom Salter’s Memories, Part 3
“We were creating trends all the time. I went to Persia with John Stephen and we came back thousands of little embroidered jackets and full-length coats called poustines, which we bought for next to nothing. They all went into my warehouse in Carnaby Street and it never occurred to me they wouldn’t sell. [...]
Tom Salter’s Memories, Part 2
“Andy Warhol sort of inspired stuff I sold in Carnaby Street. We’d come out of the Fifties where everything was very grey, so what we were mostly doing was introducing colour, whether it was the Union Jack or enamelled reds and primary colours, and then the hippie period of bells.
“I was the first person to [...]