Blitz Was The London Club Night Which Defined The Eighties. Stephen Jones Tours A New Exhibition Which Celebrates Its Influence.

Stephen Jones can still remember the look he wore to go to Blitz, the era-defining Eighties London club night, for the first time. “It was a PX black velvet Little Lord Fauntleroy suit,” Jones recalls, “with a short jacket with puffed sleeves, and knickerbockers, which I wore with white tights and black patent leather slippers.” That look was immortalized when he was photographed at Blitz with designer David Holah who, along with Stevie Stewart, made up the groovy (and now hugely collectible) fashion label BodyMap. The image has become emblematic of not just the club night itself, but the whole New Romantics (as it was to become known) notion of dressing up (and making yourself up) like crazy so you wouldn’t feel down about your life. I tell Stephen that he looked incredible in his suit. “