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    Rebel Threads

    Jun 25, 2018 5 minutes
    Interview: Andrew Stevens

    Rebel Threads is a book spanning the range of British youth subcultures from the war onwards and delving into the fashions which gave them their name. We caught up with the author, a former Midlands Mod, in among his racks of vintage clobber to talk Trevira, Toyah and Trojan...

    Film director Julien Temple wrote the foreword – how did that come about?

    I started working with Julien in '82. I believe the first video I did with him was for The Beat’s Save it for Later. It’s funny because a lot of the clothes I used in the video were seen later in Absolute Beginners, which in a way was like one big music video, and now many of these clothes feature in Rebel Threads. Thanks to magazines like , and there was a lot of interest in period fashion and in

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