John Taylor, Roger Taylor, Simon Le Bon, and Nick Rhodes at their fragrance launch in 2018. He didn’t ever cross over and become a first-division designer, but he had an amazing store in New York then, a four-story flagship that was just fantastic, with 12-foot screens running videos of the Sex Pistols.” It was probably around the time that his brand was as big as it was going to get. “We were lucky to have hooked up with him at that time, because of what he was doing with his fluorescents and a lot of silver. Stephen was an amazing guy he was like a half-poet, half-punk,” Taylor recalls. “I think Nick met Stephen through Andy Warhol. So it made total sense that in 1989, Duran Duran teamed up with punk-rock designer Stephen Sprouse (who passed away in 2004) for their Big Thing tour and Decade album cover. That kind of personal statement was what punk rock was all about.” It was a very DIY kind of moment, rummaging through my father’s closet and taking old shirts that he wasn’t wearing anymore and tearing the sleeves off and spray-painting them and stenciling them. That was my coming-of-age, when I began to assert my identity through clothes.
"For me, punk rock really made me very clothes-conscious. “I don’t like it when it gets all-over shiny I like it when it’s mixed-up, you know? We’ve always been an aspirational brand, in a way, and we kind of dressed that way, but I also like it when it keeps its street roots, where it’s still got a nod towards a sort of punk-rock thing,” Taylor says. “We’re always trying to find that mix of high/low. (Photo: EMI) Entering the house of Sprouse And I think that for me, that’s why clothes and music are always going to be connected.”ĭuran Duran's 'Decade' compilation cover art, 1989. It was the first time I ever heard Kraftwerk or Japan in a nightclub, and it had a tremendous energy to it. And the soundtrack was the beginning of electro - the end of punk, the end of glam. It was very vintage-oriented, but there was also a modern, futurist thing going on. “I loved walking in there and seeing the way kids were dressing, the way they were bleaching their hair, sweeping their hair back, wearing '40s suits and cocktail dresses and heels. “It was this confluence of post-punk people, looking to experiment, to define themselves, to identify themselves through music and clothes,” Taylor tells Yahoo Entertainment, recalling the Rum Runner scene that had such an effect on his early style sense. In honor of Duran Duran Appreciation Day ( yes, that’s a real holiday, look it up), we asked Duran Duran bassist John Taylor to give us some weekend party inspo and share the stylish stories behind some of Duran Duran’s most iconic looks.
And they’ve been pop’s best-dressed boys on film ever since. The new wave icons were at the forefront of the late ‘70s/early ‘80s fashion-focused New Romantic movement, and they developed their early style in the legendary dance club that gave the band its start, Birmingham, England’s Rum Runner. (Photo: Getty Images)įew current artists, even in today’s Instagram-obsessed era, dress as fabulously as Duran Duran themselves.
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