IRON AGE
You could say Andrew Clancey was born with an iron spoon in his mouth. The Olde York, England native’s family started a scrapyard in 1872 and as a teenager, the future fashion designer was poised to take over the dirty job of running the yard.
“The scrapyard is not the most pleasant of places,” he says. “But I continued working there—driving the lories and forklift trucks. It was very tough work.”
And definitely not Clancey’s dream job.
The creative-minded teen loved music and fashion and used his paycheck from the stockyard to stock up on stylish threads.
“I was
