December 23, 2016 by Jean Palmieri WWD
The Polimoda fashion school in
Florence will host a lecture on the intersection of fashion and music during
the Pitti Uomo show in January.
Sex Pistols founder Glen Matlock will
join Council of Fashion Designers of America member Keanan Duffty for a guest
lecture entitled The Saturday Boys
on Jan. 11 at 5:30 p.m. The presentation will open the Polimoda Rendez-Vous
series for 2017.
Duffty said he was invited to give a
keynote lecture by Polimoda’s dean, Danilo Venturi and asked Matlock to join
him since 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the
Bollock album, which was a defining moment for punk music.
According to Duffty, Matlock worked
in Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s Let It Rock shop in the early
Seventies and printed many of their early provocative T-shirts. “He has an
insider’s view of London rock ‘n’ roll fashion, which can also be found in his
autobiography ‘I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol.’ He has an encyclopedia
knowledge of youth culture like that of Gary Kemp from Spandau Ballet,” Duffty
said. The British-born Duffty is also versed in the fashion and music culture.
He started out creating hats for Steph Raynor and Helen Robinson’s PX in
London’s Covent Gardens
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