ジョージコックスさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ジョージコックスInstagram)「While in shut down I am reading the excellent biography of Malcolm McLaren by @paul_g0rm4n with added bonus of foreward by Northampton's own Alan Moore. . . "When Tommy Roberts found a backer to fund Mr Freedom’s ambitious move to larger premises in neighbouring Kensington at the end of 1970, McLaren and Westwood were among the customers who followed him. In the spring of 1971 McLaren bought a pair of Mr Freedom’s quilt-topped creepers with D-rings. In blue suede, these were designed to the original lasts and manufactured by the originators of the thick crepe-soled footwear, George Cox and Son. Creepers had long gone out of fashion as 1970s street style lurched towards the ungainly silhouette defined by feather-cut hair, the ubiquitous flared loon pants, stack-heeled boots, platform shoes and velvet suits. In fact, Mr Freedom was the only fashion outlet to stock the shoes at this time; the creepers made by Cox and its imitators had otherwise been consigned to the so-called ‘Ted’s Corner’ displays in dusty provincial gentlemen’s outfitters. These blue suede shoes, McLaren later declared with eyes a-glitter, were ‘probably the most important things I ever bought. To wear them at that time made a statement about what everyone else was wearing and thinking. It was a symbolic act to put them on. Those blue shoes had a history that I cared about, a magical association that seemed authentic. They represented an age of revolt – of desperate romantic revolt – to change your life. I proudly wore them around art school.’"」4月18日 19時01分