Along with the many tributes to Malcolm McLaren today these insights from an interview with Andrew Denton two years ago:
‘to create anything you had to believe in failure simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear’
‘I try to, with all my ability, I try to make ideas happen…ideas that could change life’…
‘we made ugliness beautiful’
‘i felt that world encouraged me to look at the world in a different way…and what allowed me to understand the world was to be able to understand how to tell stories’
Here he is with Vivienne Westwood in the shop they opened together at 430 King’s Road in 1971, photo by William English