Jordan for all intents and purposes is ground zero for punk rock. If it weren’t for her and her brave and forward thinking sartorial choices, the attitude that punk rests it’s revolution on would never have been strong enough to take hold. Fashion is a representation of who you are inside. And who Jordan Mooney was inside is a true original. Fearless, in fashion and in life, attitude expressed through style and the hard work required to not only influence an entire movements attitude and style, but also to care for and sell the fashions that gave the verve necessary for punk rock mentality to take hold. It wouldn’t have worked if it had no visual offensive that really riled everyone up. The visual was more important than the music. They went hand in hand but only the clothes gave the confidence to kick the system in the teeth. This book is brilliant because Jordan pays such great attention to details of FASHION no matter what anyone in the book is wearing. The outside forms the inside and the outside is rubber, fetish wear, spikes, museum worthy paintings in make up, rips and mohair all informed by rock n roll and as we know, all rock n roll is homosexual. Swastikas show the gangs contempt for their parents way of thinking and serve to jump
Start many an argument in the book. See thru plastic outfits and balls of steel in lesbian underground clubs and art films like Derek jarmans jubilee. Of course Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm
mclaren are there in all their rabble rousing genius and energy but there are also countless others that Jordan knew through the years getting to have their say of how they saw specific events making the book feel even more definitive and warm at the same time. Funny gossip and deathly serious conversations, middle fingers and twin sets and pearls. It’s all in this book. The most thorough and revelatory book I’ve read on the explosion that was punk rock in the Uk. The Sex Pistols. So much was happening around them and of course they were there own brilliant piece of the chaos but Jordan, it never would have lasted if it weren’t for her. Her voice is measured, never self important but also never diminishing what she and other people brought to this scene that would end up not just changing music and fashion, but also the world to come. RIP Jordan Mooney. They don’t make icons like her anymore. If you care anything about punk rock, THIS is the only book you need. Truth is a slippery thing but Jordan nails it. Fashion rules. And it is the misfits who stand strong who will shape tomorrow.
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PUNK QUEEN
This book is a must read for anyone interested in the original London PUNK movement!R.I.Paradise to the beautiful and original PUNK QUEEN, Pamela Rooke aka Jordan Mooney.
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This book is a must read for anyone interested in the original London PUNK movement!
R.I.Paradise to the beautiful and original PUNK QUEEN, Pamela Rooke aka Jordan Mooney.
R.I.Paradise to the beautiful and original PUNK QUEEN, Pamela Rooke aka Jordan Mooney.
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