EAN: 9781399623612

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

Discover the 'illuminating and colourful' ( Telegraph) story of the boutique that dressed British rock 'n' roll This is the tumultuous tale of Granny Takes A Trip lavishly illustrated with never-before-seen photographs of the shop its key players and - of course - the clothes. 'A celebration of the London boutique that bridged psychedelic fashion and glam' UNCUT Granny Takes A Trip was more than just a shop and a fashion brand it was the original rock and roll clothes boutique the template for all that followed. What started as an odd retail venture art installation in a depressed part of London known as World's End became an international byword for glam decadence in Manhattan and Hollywood combining flamboyant style and all manner of countercultural activity to attract everyone from Pattie Boyd Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg to Elton John Jimi Hendrix Miles Davis Mick Jagger Rod Stewart the Beatles and Lou Reed. Unfolding over a decade-and-a-half this tumultuous story invokes a cast of often unique sometimes entitled unusually talented and troubled individuals on a collective mission to shake up austere repressed class-ridden Britain and white bread America. Some achieved this at great personal cost as darkness addiction and tragedy stalked those behind the extraordinary shop facades. Much mythologised but never told this cautionary tale has now found its definitive chronicler in celebrated cultural historian Paul Gorman who has had access to first-hand accounts from all the principal figures as well as notes for a memoir and a much-treasured scrapbook by Freddie Hornik the tailoring entrepreneur who survived the death marches of central Europe after WW2 to acquire Granny Takes A Trip in the late 60s and transform into an unparalleled pop cultural force.

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