Season 5 · Episode 4
Graphic designer and music-video director · The Tea Set · Bow Wow Wow, Duran Duran, INXS
Released 9 Jul 2025 · 1:02:49 as a podcast
Every name, club, book, song, night and look from the interview - 225 references and 628 mentions in this episode. From the Stray Cats' quiffs and sleeve tattoos - which, as Nick tells it, made tattoos youth culture - and his first rose-and-dagger on the Sunset Strip to art-school punk, The Tea Set and modelling in Vivienne Westwood's Buffalo collection, Bow Wow Wow and the See Jungle cover after Manet, Malcolm McLaren pairing square dance with hip-hop on Duck Rock and Buffalo Gals, his first videos as MTV took off, Marc Jacobs' grunge show and Sonic Youth's Sugar Kane in the Perry Ellis showroom, Duran Duran's Ordinary World at Huntington Gardens and INXS's Kick. Wow!
Loose white open-knit sweater with a bold black zigzag over a white T-shirt, and dark brown rectangular frames with amber-tinted lenses
A wall of distressed gold leaf with a three-candle brass sconce and a framed portrait of a long-necked woman in a burgundy frame
Tattoos
Nick's opening story: before the Stray Cats only sailors, dockers and prisoners had tattoos; now, he says, it's rare not to have one
Nick calls him a cultural god of London. Nick was Bow Wow Wow's creative overseer for him and worked on Duck Rock and Buffalo Gals; he credits Malcolm with pairing square dancing and hip-hop, foreseeing free music with home taping, and breaking down barriers. Nick says Malcolm dropped Bow Wow Wow once hip-hop meant he didn't need a group
FashionPunk impresario; Worlds End fashion-show music
Heard as “Malcolm / McLaren”
Nick travelled there with Bow Wow Wow, brought club records back, later moved there and met Marc Jacobs; he says the scenes there were more segregated than London's until people like Johnny Dynell mixed them
Heard as “New York / new york”
Nick's punk and club years; the Stray Cats' arrival there, he says, launched tattoos as youth culture
Heard as “London / london”
Nick's opening story: before the Stray Cats only sailors, dockers and prisoners had tattoos; now, he says, it's rare not to have one
FashionTattoos
Heard as “Tattoo / tattoo”
Nick and Malcolm were in New York as it came down from the South Bronx; Nick says Malcolm brought it to Europe first
FashionB-boy style
Heard as “hip hop / hip-hop / rap / rap music”
Nick was an original London punk; he says real punk was an art-school movement of artistic kids, not the spiky cliché, and that punk T-shirts had already pushed shock as far as it could go
FashionArt-school punk (see Mood)
Heard as “punk / punks / punky”
Nick was the band's creative overseer for Malcolm; he calls them sexy and one of the first diverse groups, with Burundi beats. He went to LA with them for I Want Candy and designed the See Jungle cover
FashionPirate and Burundi-drum look
Heard as “Bal Wah Wow / Bal Wow / Bow Awa / Bow Wow”
Nick met him through his girlfriend when Marc had just won a student award at Parsons; he did the invitations for Marc's first show and calls him a hard-working kid. As Nick tells it, Marc made the grunge collection to get out of his Perry Ellis contract, and it won him designer of the year
FashionGrunge collection for Perry Ellis (see Mood)
Heard as “Mark / Mark Jacobs”
As Nick tells it, seeing him at Madison Square Garden convinced Nick he was a born rock star. Nick sold him within the band on the Kick gatefold, became a close friend and made Searching, the band's last video with him. James adds that the way he moved was magnetic
FashionRock-star frontman
Heard as “Michael / Michael Hutchins”
Asked Nick to front the menswear and custom-made outfits for him; he modelled in London and Paris, designed invitations and art-directed her shows, becoming a muse for Nostalgia of Mud, Punkature and Witches
FashionBuffalo look with big hats; custom menswear for Nick (see Mood)
Heard as “Vivian / Westwood”
Johnny Dynell, a good friend of Nick's: Nick credits him with starting Jackie 60 and bringing New York's separate scenes together, calling him the Malcolm of New York. Links to Chi Chi and Johnny's Night Fever episode
Heard as “Danielle / Dinell / Johnny / johnny”
Nick says it arrived just as he started and became so big every home had it on, giving a shared culture we've since lost
Host; opens with the Stray Cats tattoo story, steers Nick through Malcolm, Marc Jacobs and Bow Wow Wow, and ends wanting a part two. Links to his own Night Fever episode
Heard as “James / James St. James”
Nick's closest band relationship: he designed their wedding-themed album cover and made Ordinary World. Nick admits he wasn't a fan before, being a punk
Heard as “Duran Duran / Joan Juran / Juran Duran / Juran Juran”
As Nick tells it, tattoos only became youth culture when the rockabilly trio arrived in London with quiffs and sleeve tattoos; James recalls Nick saying their sex appeal made every young man want tattoos
FashionQuiffs and sleeve tattoos (see Mood)
Heard as “Straikett / Stray Cat / Stray Cats / Straycats”
Nick's second-closest band relationship; he wanted to give a great band an identity and present them as a band, with Michael as the star inside it
FashionFashion-shoot band portraits (see Mood)
Heard as “In Excess / In excess / NXS / in Excess”
The guest: punk-era graphic designer and music-video director - covers for The Clash, Dexys Midnight Runners, Bow Wow Wow, INXS and Duran Duran; videos for Iggy Pop, Duran Duran, INXS, Sonic Youth and more. Once the singer of The Tea Set and a Vivienne Westwood menswear model. Links to his Night Fever episode
FashionModelled Westwood menswear and art-directed her shows; T-shirts and invitations; white zigzag knit on camera (see Mood)
Heard as “Egan / Nick / egan”
Heard as Philip Salon. One of Nick's London friends; Nick says he loves him, though Philip would call him over and over to DJ until he gave in
FashionOutrageous club dressing
Heard as “Philip”
Nick's first single cover was their White Man in Hammersmith Palais; The Tea Set supported them, and they were managed by Bernard Rhodes
Heard as “Clash / classes manager / classics rehearsal / the class”
The Tea Set played there; Nick modelled for Vivienne's Paris shows and went to the grand balls
Malcolm's album, which Nick says influenced fashion, street culture, music and video more than anything else he did; Nick's Rizzoli book is about that period
Heard as “Duck Rock / Duff Rock / duck rock”
Old friend of Nick's who DJed at Planets. Nick says he came from a family of boxers and could look after himself, and counts him among the people who broke down barriers by daring to look different
FashionGender-bending club look (see Mood)
Heard as “Boy George / George”
Nick says the Sugar Kane video cast expensive grunge as the Emperor's New Clothes
FashionGrunge (see Mood)
Heard as “Grunch / grunge”
Why Nick's mother was horrified by his first tattoo, as he tells it
FashionOld-school sailor ink
Heard as “prison / sailors”
Nick's post-punk band from art school, formed after The Bears (heard as T Set and C-set). Nick says he was picked for his look, not his voice; they did John Peel sessions and supported U2, Iggy Pop and The Clash
FashionArt-school look
Heard as “C-set / T Set / frontman in the T-shirt / tea set”
Nick's first album cover was theirs (heard as Dex's Mid Up Runners). He says he found them too austere and not sexy compared with Bow Wow Wow
FashionDockers-and-donkey-jacket soul look
Heard as “Decent memory that runs / Dex's Mid Up Runners / Dexter's Minnesota Runner / Dexters Minnet Runners”
Nick calls it the first record of a new style without a verse-chorus pop hook; Malcolm paired square-dance calls with hip-hop calls. The video shows the Rock Steady Crew in Westwood hats
FashionBuffalo hats (see Mood)
Heard as “Buffalo Gal / Buffalo Girls / Buffalo, Girls / the Buffalo.”
Malcolm's genius link, as Nick tells it: square-dance calls and rap calls are the same thing
FashionBuffalo look
Heard as “Square dancing / square dance / square dancing”
Vivienne's collection James calls the Buffalo Gal collection, with big hats and a mishmash of layers; Nick modelled in it and says he's the tallest in the show video on YouTube
FashionMountain hats, layered sheepskin and mud tones
Heard as “Buffalo Collection / Buffalo Gal collection / Buffalo style / Nosturgy Mub”
Nick says the Sugar Kane video was her first time on camera
FashionDowntown It girl
Heard as “Chloe / Savigny”
Marc's award for the grunge collection; Nick thinks it was Women's Wear Daily's, but it was the CFDA's. Nick made a short film for the evening that a reviewer called its highlight
Heard as “Fashion Designer of the Year / fashion designer of the year / fashion designer units”
Duran Duran's bassist: tracked Nick down for an album cover, and they got on like a house on fire. Nick says White Lines is John's favourite of his videos
Heard as “John Taylor / John and I / John's / just John”
Nick's first trip there was with Bow Wow Wow for the I Want Candy video; Cleopatra Records is based there, and so is Nick now
Heard as “LA / Los Angeles”
Nick spoke at a conference there and loved how it values Māori culture
Produced Duck Rock with Malcolm (heard as Trevor Horne). As Nick tells it, Malcolm had no demo and handed him a Honduran 78 instead, and Trevor went with it
Heard as “Trevor”
The friend Nick spent most time with: he ran the club White Trash, where Nick DJed. James remembers him with blond dreads. Heard as Denzel or Denzil Williams; spelling unconfirmed
FashionBlond dreads (see Mood)
Heard as “Denzel / Denzil”
Nick learned about its music, Gwen Guthrie for one, while bringing records back to London, and says it drew straight people too
Looks Nick traces to the London gay club scene before punk made them its own
FashionMohair, peg trousers, jelly sandals
Heard as “mohair / peg trousers / plastic. Sandals”
The label Marc designed for; Nick says Marc wanted out of the contract and shot Sugar Kane in its showroom
FashionGrunge collection
Heard as “Peri Ellis / Perry Alice / Terry Ellis / at Perry”
Nick shot their Sugar Kane video in Marc's Perry Ellis showroom among the grunge collection
Heard as “Sonic”
Bow Wow Wow's singer, pictured on the See Jungle cover. As Nick tells it, the complaint about the cover came from her mother, not from the band
Heard as “Annabella”
Duran Duran's album, its cover built from the band's parents' wedding photos and photo-booth portraits; Nick says they went from a big budget to about £10
FashionPhoto-booth portraits (see Mood)
Heard as “photo booth / wedding pictures”
Duran Duran's idea, which Nick made art with a Rauschenberg feel
FashionFaded wedding photos, photo strips
Heard as “photo booth / wedding pictures”
Where Creative Vandal and the Nostalgia of Mud show video can be seen; Ordinary World's views there
Nick wanted the mermaid at Cliff Raven's but could only afford a rose with a dagger through it
FashionRose-and-dagger flash
Heard as “mermaid / rose with a dagger”
A little stick-and-poke anarchy sign Nick has
FashionStick-and-poke
Heard as “anarchy”
Nick designed his Blah-Blah-Blah cover and made his first video for Real Wild Child; the Tea Set also supported him. Nick calls him a great character
Heard as “Iggy / biggie pop”
LA label that released The Tea Set's singles compilation
Heard as “Cleopatra”
Duran Duran, Bow Wow Wow and Dexys were all on it, as Nick notes
Nick says Malcolm and Trevor Horn made world music for the masses and the young
Heard as “world music”
James calls it a turning point in pop culture and recalls the story that it got Marc fired; Nick says Marc meant it to send up grunge and get out of his contract, but it sold well and won him designer of the year
FashionGrunge on the runway (see Mood)
Heard as “grunge collection / that collection”
Sonic Youth video Nick directed, which Nick says gave Chloë Sevigny her first time on camera; he says the idea was the Emperor's New Clothes
FashionBand among the grunge collection (see Mood)
Heard as “Sugar Cane / sugar cane”
Holds Andy Earl's See Jungle cover photograph, which Nick sees as vindication
Heard as “National Portrait Gallery”
One of three classic paintings Nick says they considered for the cover (heard as Frageno)
FashionRococo boudoir
Heard as “Frageno / The Bolt / the bolt”
Implied: a host asks whether Bow Wow Wow first released music only on cassette; Nick says Malcolm wanted people to tape off the radio, foreseeing free music online
Heard as “cassette tape / cassette tapes”
Duran Duran comeback single; Nick's video of a woman walking through a garden wedding lost in thought made his name as a director. He says it now has over 150 million views
FashionGarden wedding (see Mood)
Actor friend of Nick's (also heard as Benny); James and Nick place him in Dead Calm. Billy told Nick that John Taylor was looking for him to do a Duran Duran cover
Heard as “Benny / Billy Zane”
Where Nick staged the fake wedding for Ordinary World, with projection screens among the gardens at night; he places it in Pasadena (it's in neighbouring San Marino)
FashionGarden wedding (see Mood)
Heard as “Huntington”
The Ordinary World shoot: a bride lost in thought, with projections hung in the gardens at night
FashionBridal white among the gardens
Heard as “fake wedding / projection screen / projection screens”
One of the magazines putting fashion and music together, as Nick recalls; Steven Meisel shot for it
FashionFashion and music
Heard as “Details / details”
Connie Girl: Nick says she was in his Soup Dragons video, which he calls the first video with a trans person in it; James notes Connie has been on the show too
FashionModel and ballroom icon
Heard as “Connie / Kanye”
Fenton and Randy's company; Nick praises them for bringing different cultures to the world
Co-host and World of Wonder co-founder, named in the intro; one of the co-hosts asks whether the regressive mood means people will be persecuted again
Heard as “Barbado / Randy”
In James's intro list of artists Nick has made videos for
Heard as “Kylie / Minogue”
Nick says the leather-jacket, spiked-hair, pierced-nose image isn't true: punk was artistic kids from art school
FashionArt-school eclectic
Heard as “art school movement / liberty-spiked”
The look that, Nick says, made women go crazy and every young man want a tattoo
FashionRockabilly quiffs, full sleeves
Heard as “quiffs / sleeve tattoos”
Legendary tattoo artist whose shop on the Sunset Strip gave Nick his first tattoo
FashionRose-and-dagger flash (see Mood)
Nick compares the Stray Cats to the American troops in wartime England: overpaid, oversexed and over here
Heard as “Second World War / over here”
Talking tattoos, Nick praises how New Zealand values Māori culture and influence
FashionTā moko
Heard as “Maori”
Nick says The Tea Set supported U2 at their first-ever gig at the Nashville Rooms, and that U2 later gave an album away
Heard as “U2 / supported you two”
Bow Wow Wow played one of its last events, as Nick recalls, and he designed the giveaway records
The Tea Set's singles compilation on Cleopatra Records, with a new song recorded by the original members
Heard as “Back. In time for tea / back in time for tea”
On early MTV, and fronted by Nick's friend Richard Butler
Heard as “Psychedelic Furs / Psychedelic Further”
Nick says MTV hadn't reached Europe yet, and that Malcolm was the first to bring rap there
The Clash's manager (heard as Bernard Rose), whom Nick calls a real character; Nick was doing the Dexys album cover with him when he met Malcolm, and they made fashion-show tapes in a small studio where the Clash rehearsed
Heard as “Bernard Rose / Bernie Roto”
Where Dave Barbarossa's family came from
Nick saw them at the 100 Club early on; Malcolm was known for them
Heard as “sex bus / sex pistols”
Another South Bronx pioneer Nick names; James also prefers Duran Duran's White Lines to his
Where hip-hop was coming from, little known in Manhattan at first
Heard as “South Branch / South Bronx”
Didn't know about the Bronx pioneers yet, as Nick recalls; Negril brought Bronx kids into it
Filmmaker Nick credits with gathering the hip-hop crowd, graffiti artists included, that he and Malcolm worked with
Heard as “Holman / Michael Hol”
Heard as Phil Williams: Nick says he took the Westwood Buffalo hat look seen on the Rock Steady Crew in the Buffalo Gals video
FashionOversized Westwood mountain hat
Heard as “Pharrell / Phil Williams”
The Rock Steady Crew's look in the Buffalo Gals video, which Nick says Pharrell took
FashionMountain hat, red Adidas top
Heard as “red Addy / wearing the hat”
In Nick's circle of friends with George and Philip, out to dinner together
FashionGender-bending club look
Nick says his London friends' gender-bending look was dangerous to wear, and they made it safer for everyone
FashionGender-bending club looks
Heard as “had that look / look different”
London club run by Nick's friend Denzil, where Nick DJed; the original London night of that name is remembered for pioneering electro
Heard as the Grill: Nick calls it the first club to bring hip-hop down from the South Bronx, mixing arty, rock, gay and Bronx crowds. Kool Lady Blue's hip-hop nights started there
FashionMixed crowds
Heard as “The Grill / the grill”
Named by Nick among those who risked looking different. Nick shares a funny story Brian told him from his club days. Identity unclear; spelling as heard
Heard as “Brian Reagan / Brian was”
Probably the film Nick praises to James and the hosts as brilliant and moving, about a person rather than a message
Heard as “did the movie / your movie”
Named briefly in Nick's political aside, after James says he sees much more anti-trans hate online
Heard as “Trump”
Vivienne asked Nick to front her menswear and made his outfits; he also laced the shoes for the shows
FashionWestwood menswear
Heard as “asked me to model / custom made”
Nick modelled, designed the invitations, laced the shoes and art-directed the shows
FashionWestwood runway (see Mood)
Heard as “modelled in Paris / went to Paris for the first time”
Nick says the Westwood gang had about £20 between them yet were treated like 1930s Hollywood at balls with Lagerfeld
FashionStreet kids in couture
Heard as “Hollywood in the 30s / gutter snipes”
James asks if Nick was the dandy highwayman; Nick says that was the Pirate collection, around when he met Malcolm
FashionPirate shirts, sashes and bicorne hats
Heard as “Pirate Collection / dandy highwayman”
The idea behind the Sugar Kane video, as Nick explains it
Heard as “Emperor's New Clothes / Emperor's new clothes”
Nick says Marc's grunge pieces sent up grunge by charging couture prices for what cost almost nothing
FashionGrunge at couture prices
Heard as “Grunch dresses / expensive grunge”
Bow Wow Wow album whose cover, Andy Earl's recreation of Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, Nick designed. James says it ranks among the greatest covers. Nick says Annabella's mother complained to the police and wanted Malcolm, Nick and Andy arrested; he insists it was an innocent art reference meant to provoke thought
FashionPicnic tableau (see Mood)
Heard as “sea jungle”
Nick's setting for Liberty Leading the People, which actually shows the July Revolution
Delacroix's painting, the second option for the cover (heard as Liberty Leads the People)
FashionTricolour flag over rubble
Heard as “Liberty Leads the People / Liberty leading”
Manet's painting, recreated for the See Jungle cover. As Nick tells it, its scandal in its day was about the rough painting style, and the cover was meant to make people think
FashionPicnic in the woods
Heard as “Dejune Soulebes / Luncheon on the Grass”
Photographer of the See Jungle cover; Nick left his picture without type so it could speak for itself. Nick says the complaint to the police named him too
Heard as “Andy Earl / Andy L's”
Nick recalls punk T-shirts made to shock - an upside-down crucifix design and the cowboys shirt - and says by Bow Wow Wow's time they were over all that
FashionProvocative screen-printed T-shirts
Heard as “Jesus upside down / naked cowboys”
Billy Zane's co-star in Dead Calm, named by James
Heard as “Carl Kidman / Nicole Kidman”
Nick drew on his collage style to make the parents' wedding photos on Duran Duran's cover feel like art
FashionPop collage
Heard as “Rausenberg”
Where Nick places Huntington Gardens
The Psychedelic Furs' singer, a friend Nick loves; Nick says people would recognise Richard before Michael Hutchence
Heard as “Richard Butler / recognize Richard”
Near the Sound and Vision, as remembered on the show
Co-host and World of Wonder co-founder, named in the intro. The two co-hosts' voices were not separated in the transcript: one of them says everyone was in love with Nick in his Tea Set days and calls Malcolm the first to mash everything up
Heard as “Fenton”
Heard as Delight in James's intro list of acts Nick designed covers for
Heard as “Delight”
In James's intro list of Nick's album covers
Alanis Morissette video by Nick, named in the intro
Heard as “you ought to know”
Documentary about Nick, free on YouTube, which James says won a California Music Video Award
James says Creative Vandal won best feature music film or documentary there
Heard as “California Music Video”
Nick was sent to LA as art director on the video; he says Malcolm's only instruction was no candy canes, and the video ended up full of them
FashionCandy canes (see Mood)
Malcolm's one instruction, as Nick tells it - and candy canes were all there was in the video
FashionCandy-cane stripes
Heard as “candy canes”
The rock-and-roll hotel on Sunset where Nick stayed on that first LA trip
Where the Hyatt House and Cliff Raven's tattoo shop faced each other
Heard as “on sunset”
Nick and James recall tattooing being illegal in New York
Heard as “illegal to get a tattoo”
Where, James says, New Yorkers had to go for tattoos while they were illegal in the city
James asks whether The Tea Set worked with them; the band toured with them
Heard as “Stranglers”
The band The Tea Set grew out of; Nick says its singer died in a motorcycle accident
London pub venue where, Nick says, The Tea Set supported U2 at their first-ever gig there
Heard as “Nashville”
The Tea Set did the John Peel show several times, as Nick says
Heard as “John Peel”
One of Studio 54's last events, as Nick recalls; he designed the giveaway records
Heard as “show at the Studio 54”
Another early-MTV band Nick lists
FashionFamous swept-forward hair
Heard as “Flocker Seagulls”
Nick's first ever artwork was a Ramones T-shirt
FashionRamones T-shirt (see Mood)
The Clash single that was Nick's first single cover
Heard as “White Man and Hampshire Palette”
Dexys album: Nick's first album cover
Heard as “Young Soul Rebels”
Iggy Pop song and Nick's first video; he says he made it from live footage at the Ritz plus graphics and fell in love with the form
New York venue (then at Webster Hall); Nick says Real Wild Child was built from live footage of Iggy there
Heard as “the Ritz”
Heard as elbows: Nick says bands have made promotional films as far back as Elvis
Heard as “elbows”
Nick listened on headphones as a kid, imagining pictures to go with the music
FashionGlam
Heard as “T-Rex”
James says Vivienne liked a T-shirt of Nick's with cut-out letters
FashionRansom-note lettering
Heard as “cutout letters”
Bow Wow Wow's drummer (heard as Dave Bob), whose family came from Mauritius; Nick calls the band one of the first truly diverse groups
Heard as “Dave Bob”
Bow Wow Wow's drumming drew on Burundi beats, as Nick says
Nick says he has just signed with Rizzoli for a book on Malcolm's Duck Rock period; no listing found yet
Heard as “book deal”
Heard as Africa Bambarta: one of the South Bronx names Manhattan didn't yet know, as Nick recalls
Heard as “Bambarta”
Named just as Blue: with Michael Holman she brought together the hip-hop people Nick and Malcolm ended up working with. She ran hip-hop nights at Negril and the Roxy and managed the Rock Steady Crew
Heard as “Called Blue”
Michael Holman brought graffiti artists into the circle Nick and Malcolm worked with
Heard as “graffiti”
Their Rapture came before Buffalo Gals
Malcolm went there looking for music before hip-hop, as Nick recalls
Another of Malcolm's musical trips for Duck Rock
B-boys in the Buffalo Gals video, wearing the Westwood hat and one in a red Adidas top
FashionWestwood hats and Adidas (see Mood)
Heard as “Rockstudy”
The red top one of the Rock Steady Crew wears in Buffalo Gals
FashionRed Adidas top
Heard as “Addy Das”
Vivienne and Malcolm's shop and label at 430 King's Road, named as Nick talks about the fashion side
FashionWorlds End collections
Heard as “World's End”
The Honduran merengue 78 that Malcolm gave Trevor Horn as a demo
Heard as “Honduran”
The Clash's rehearsal place; Nick says they made Malcolm's fashion-show tapes in a small studio there
Heard as “rehearsal rehearsal”
Nick's New York connection, who sent a weekly chart of the top club records; spelling as heard
London club where, Nick says, Boy George DJed; not found online
Johnny Dynell's club, which Nick describes as a trans club that later became part of the voguing story
Heard as “Jackie Sixty”
Paradise Garage music Nick brought back to London
Where Nick saw the Sex Pistols' residency grow from about 50 people; Negril reminded him of it
Heard as “Hundred Club”
Heard as shagaramas: probably the Covent Garden club that became the Roxy. Nick links the mohair sweater, peg trousers and plastic sandals to the gay scene there, before punk took them over
FashionMohair sweaters, peg trousers, plastic sandals (see Mood)
Heard as “shagaramas”
Marc's first label; James says Nick helped with the set design for its first show, and Nick did the invitations
Heard as “sketchbook”
Heard as Dr. Carlagafeld: at the grand Paris balls where, Nick says, the Westwood gang were treated like 1930s Hollywood stars
Heard as “Carlagafeld”
Named as the Princess of Monaco, at the same Paris balls
Heard as “Princess of Monaco”
One of the three Westwood collections Nick was muse for
FashionTorn, layered street couture
Heard as “Punkature”
The third of Nick's Westwood collections
FashionKeith Haring prints and pointed hats
Heard as “Witches”
Named by Nick alongside Marc when they first met; identity unclear and spelling as heard
Heard as “Robert Boykin”
Where Marc had just won a young designer prize when Nick met him
Heard as “Parsons”
Sonic Youth shot amid Marc's collection in the Perry Ellis showroom
FashionPlaid and slip dresses
Heard as “interspersed with all the collection”
Nick's guess for who named Marc designer of the year (it was the CFDA)
James mentions a recent show about her in which the supermodels still talked about Marc's grunge collection
Sonic Youth's bassist, whom Nick calls a fashion icon; he says Marc has stayed good friends with her
FashionFashion icon
James credits it with putting the See Jungle cover in a top 10; the ranking we found is No. 10 in the book The 100 Best Album Covers
Painter of Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, the work Bow Wow Wow recreated for the See Jungle cover
Heard as “Manet”
As Nick tells it, he condemned the technique of Manet's painting, and that was the real scandal
Heard as “Napoleon”
Nick's example of Paris, where nudity on stage was no scandal
Heard as “Folly Berger”
Named with the Folies Bergère
Nick calls Manet's Déjeuner the first Impressionist work
James supplies the name when Nick reaches for the first free-music service; Nick recalls its founder as Sean
Nick's example of acts selling the same records again in every new format
Heard as “Error Smith”
James prefers Duran Duran's cover to Grandmaster Flash's original; Nick says it's John's favourite of his videos
Heard as “White Lines”
The yacht thriller with Billy Zane and Nicole Kidman, worked out by James
Australian actress, then married to Billy Zane and a good friend of Nick's; Nick says she was also friends with Michael Hutchence
Nick, a punk, says he thought the New Romantics lost punk's cheap-and-cheerful spirit
Heard as “new romantic”
Shorthand for Duran Duran's lavish early videos, before they went cheap and punky
Heard as “Sri Lankan”
Duran Duran guitarist; Nick credits him with a lot of Ordinary World
Heard as “Warren”
Nick puts Michael Hutchence in his league
Another frontman Nick compares Michael Hutchence to
INXS album with Nick's gatefold cover, each member shot separately against white
FashionAustere white-background portraits
Heard as “round kick”
Nick recalls him shooting for Details; that austere fashion style fed Nick's INXS imagery
FashionAustere studio fashion shots
Heard as “Stephen Meisel”
Nick says its austere shots against white were a big influence, and he brought that look to music
FashionAustere white-background shoots
Heard as “Italian Vogue”
Nick brought the Italian Vogue look into music, shooting each INXS member separately
FashionStudio white, black and white
Heard as “Against white”
Duran Duran's singer; Nick is close to him
Heard as “Simon and Nick”
Duran Duran's keyboardist, named as Nick alongside Simon
Heard as “Simon and Nick”
Nick's video in San Francisco; he says it was the last video INXS made with Michael Hutchence
Heard as “for searching”
Where the Sound and Vision video pub was, as remembered on the show
Heard as “In Soho”
One guess for where the Sound and Vision was
The other guess
Soho pub with a video jukebox that cost 50p a play, brought up as the birth of music videos; not found online
Heard as “Sound and Vision”
The Sound and Vision pub's video jukebox, remembered as the birth of music videos
FashionNeon-lit video bar
Heard as “jukebox”
Nick remembers its giant screen opening with his Soup Dragons video
Heard as “Universal City Wall”
Nick made videos for them; one opened the giant screen at Universal CityWalk
Heard as “Soup Dragons”
Heard as 1950: the Soup Dragons video Nick saw on the CityWalk screen and James says was nominated for an MTV award. Divine Thing is Nick's Soup Dragons video with an MTV nomination; Nick says it featured Connie Girl
Heard as “for 1950”
Probably the Soup Dragons' singer (heard only as Sean); Nick says Sean is proud the video was the first to feature a trans person
Heard as “And Sean is”
A wall of distressed gold leaf with a three-candle brass sconce and a framed portrait of a long-necked woman in a burgundy frame
FashionLoose white open-knit sweater with a bold black zigzag over a white T-shirt, and dark brown rectangular frames with amber-tinted lenses
Retro orange-and-ochre sunflower wallpaper, brown, rust and cream curtains, and shelves with a Brillo box, a Candela box and caps
FashionNavy zip-neck track top and thin rimless rectangular glasses; bald
His home library of packed bookshelves, framed pictures, a cowboy portrait and a black mic
FashionTaupe-grey satin shirt and black rectangular glasses; shaved head
His office with the framed Holy Terror poster and shelves of binders and boxes (small screenshot)
FashionTan baseball cap with an orange patch, round dark frames, and a red plaid flannel shirt under a dark jacket
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