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In a short-lived fashion magazine, a wry send-up of British football culture

ran from 1993 to 2003 during the boom in London-based style magazines. It was witty, often rambling, and wry. For a few years, beginning in late 2000, the artist Scott King served as the magazine’s creative director, having arrived there from fellow British title . He didn’t care about fashion. Instead, he saw as a vehicle to pursue his art practice. He wanted to use it, he explained recently, in the way “an artist would use a magazine—to just

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