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Designer John Richmond on Punk Fashion & How Patti Smith Changed Him
Fashion designer John Richmond on punk fashion and how Patti Smith and David Bowie changed him.
He arrived in Italy in the early ’80s after earning a degree in Fashion Design at London’s Kensington University, and collaborated with brands that, in those years, were anticipating trends: Armani and Fiorucci. He has a style that still influences international fashion today, thanks to his now iconic jeans model with the writing “RICH.” In the early 2000s, logo mania swept through many other brands. I remember funny things: the New Kids on the Block arrived on a small street getting out of a white limousine that couldn’t turn the corner and had to reverse.
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