Stephen Linard News Today

Pet Shop Boys' West End Girls is a hymn to the city of London says Matthew Lindsay 40 years after its release.

The Progressive Pride flag was flown over Hastings and Bexhill Town Halls on Friday to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT).

Stephen Linard, who made clothes for David Bowie and Boy George, took at 360-degree approach to design, and pioneered Goth and New Romantic fashion.

Tributes have been paid following the death of New Romantic icon and fashion designer Stephen Linard, who has died aged 65.

For Blitz Kid and Saint Martin’s graduate Iain R. Webb, the late seventies and early eighties were a blur of dressing up and going out: “It was all about putting on a show, be it for a captive audience at some dive bar or on the tube.”

Princess Julia is a much-loved monarch who has reigned across the past five decades of London’s subcultural and nocturnal scenes. She once admitted she’s gone out every single night, dressed up to the max, since 1976 and rightfully commands style icon status.