The year that staid old Opel went trendy.

Carnaby Street was the place to be, for the mod and hippie style of London. Lined with many fashionable boutiques such as Foale and T...

Carnaby Street in the 1960s

They’d roam around the hippest places in London and Brighton, showing off their new designer clothes or riding their Italian scooters. It’s the mods, ladies and gentlemen! A true staple of 60s fashion, the mod style has never completely disappeared and, while it stayed underground throughout some decades, it has seen more than one revival. Discover its origens and learn to dress like them with our guide to mod fashion! Credit: Shaping a Generation History of Mod Fashion Credit: GQ This…

Carnaby Street, 1969

Carnaby Street, London, circa 1967. Photo by Michael Putland.🍭

Whatever Happened to Stephen Topper & Topper Shoes? If you were to browse through the men's fashion section of every other issue of Rave magazine from the mid-1960s onwards, I guarantee, you would soon notice that the names Stephen Topper and Topper Shoes show up one after the other on a fairly regular basis. Much favoured by stylish young men about town, Topper Shoes were without a doubt one of the most happening footwear brands of the era. Their clientele list included members of the…

I lived in Oxford and on the Isle of Wight in the Late Sixties, writes Arby Reed. This collection contains some of the sights I took time to photograph. I wish I had taken more and more that reflected the culture of the sixties. The 1960s were when London emerged as the epicentre of fashion, … Continue reading "24 Color Photos of Swinging London – 1967-1969"

Take a walk down Carnaby Street