Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London focuses on the year the legendary nightclub Taboo was opened by designer and performance artist Leigh Bowery, 1985. A tiny club in the corner of Leicester Square that lasted barely a year, Taboo provoked an extraordinary explosion of fashion designers, artists, writers, performers and filmmakers.
This is the first exhibition to explore the range of designers and creatives associated with Taboo, many of whom have been forgotten or died tragically young. Although Taboo was short-lived, the exhibition will bring to light a creative community of people who together influenced and changed the landscape of British popular culture in the mid-1980s. With items on display ranging from a graphic jacket worn by Boy George and designed by Dean Bright to a carpet coat by Mark and Syrie, a yellow shower curtain cape worn by Nicola Bowery and a gold suit designed by Stephen Linard, the exhibition showcases radical designs by fearlessly alternative designers.
| Duration | 04 October 2024 - 09 March 2025 |
| Times | Tuesdays - Saturdays, 11.00 – 18.00 |
| Cost | £12.95 |
| Venue | Fashion and Textile Museum |
| Address | 83 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3XF |
| Contact | / fashiontextilemuseum@newham.ac.uk / www.fashiontextilemuseum.org/ |