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hypnoticvamp · 1 year

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Jordan Mooney together with Vivienne Westwood, 1977.

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bitter69uk · 25 days

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In Memoriam: pioneering scene-maker of early UK punk, a muse to Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren as well as filmmaker Derek Jarman, and the original one-woman Sex Pistol Jordan (née Pamela Rooke, 23 June 1955 - 3 April 2022) died on this day two years ago. If the 1970s London punk subculture had an “It girl”, it was Jordan. Her confrontational sense of style and intimidating demeanour made Jordan a natural employee selling kinky latex bondage wear at Westwood and McLaren’s outré SEX boutique on London’s King Road in 1975. As Jon Savage recalls in his definitive 1991 punk history England’s Dreaming, it was a perfect fit. “(Jordan) was a living advertisement for the new shop, having turned her own body into an art object.” I treasure my sole fleeting encounter with her in 2012 at the book launch party for Punk’s Dead by Simon Barker. Jordan was holding court, surrounded by admirers, in front of one of Barker’s portraits of her. I approached and she graciously autographed a postcard for me. To do it, Jordan turned me around and wrote it against my back, gripping my shoulder with her free hand – which melted my punk heart! Jordan was truly a woman and a half. Fun fact: a besotted John Waters admitted he used to keep a photo of Jordan pinned to the bulletin board above his writing desk for inspiration.

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iamdangerace · 8 months

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I know I frightened the living daylights out of most of the people who walked into Sex. Boy George was a frequent visitor and he’s said I was pretty intimidating. Adam Ant told me he saw me as the living epitome of his idea of a dominatrix. Why was I like that? It’s hard to describe. I felt my expressions should be in tune with what I was wearing – like a work of art. Jordan Mooney

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hoodienanami · 4 months

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a picture of style icon and original punk Jordan taken by Jane England sometime during the late 70s

Jordan was quite devoted to her job at pre-fame Vivienne Westwood’s King’s Road boutique SEX (aka Seditionaries) and would often refuse to sell to anyone that she thought didnt understand the political meaning behind the clothes

Some people would come in the shop and just want to grab something because they had money and I would say to people, ‘You can’t buy that. You shouldn’t buy that, it’s not for you’. Vivienne and Malcolm and I were very clear about that and we used to do it quite a bit. We’d really talk to people about why they wanted to buy something and did they think it looked good on them, then why? Essentially we wanted to know why they were really buying it. There was a clear ideology behind these clothes, which is why we were so strict about it. I wasn’t prepared to sell things that looked awful on people just because they had the money to buy it. It would have been bastardizing something beautiful just for the money. The clothes were really like works of art to me, to be cherished and taken care off. For instance, there were these incredible A-line skirts that I loved wearing the rubber suited the shape so well. It was a kind of legitimizing of latex and not wearing it just because it was latex but it was a beautiful fashion item. And it wasn’t only the latex stuff. Having said that I did once have a skirt that literally melted off me! - Jordan

but that didnt mean Jordan was heartless towards young punkers who werent up to date on their Situationist texts or didnt have enough dosh to afford anything

Sometimes people would say things like, ‘I’ve come down from Newcastle and I deserve these trousers and I want them’. If people stood their ground with me then fair enough. I really don’t believe in giving things away. People have to work hard to be a genius, to make things like that, as Vivienne did. It’s not to be given away – it becomes meaningless if it is. But there’s been endless stories of me being kind to people in the shop when I worked at SEX, which is interesting because I had a reputation as being rather dour and unapproachable, and very much a dominatrix type of a person. There were also instances in which, if someone didn’t have enough money, I’d let them have some money off or even give them something under the table. […] I think that punk is an attitude and if punk teaches us anything, it’s not to point the finger at anybody, and it’s to include people, and it’s to include the sexes as equals, and it’s to make people feel that those who are feeling like they’re outsiders feel comfortable. - Jordan

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martinedutot76 · 4 months

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#punk #post punk #Jordan #jordan mooney #pamela rooke

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punkieagainsttheworld · 2 years

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Vivienne Westwood,Johnny Rotten, Jordan Mooney

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cantsayidont · 8 days

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February 1978. Released a year after the royal Silver Jubilee to which the title alludes, this colorful, moderately surreal, definitely pretentious Derek Jarman punk indulgence is framed by an odd sequence in which an angel (Ian Charleson) gives Queen Elizabeth I (Jenny Runacre) and John Dee (Richard O'Brien) a glimpse of the future, where a group of young punks — Amyl (Pamela Rooke, aka Jordan), Crabs (Little Nell, aka Nell Campbell, who could have convincingly played Helen Mirren's younger sister), Viv (Linda Spurrier), Mad (Toyah Willcox), Sphinx (Karl Johnson), Angel (Ian Charleson), and Kid (Adam Ant), along with the somewhat older and decidedly mad Bod (also Runacre) — struggle with end-of-the-world ennui and boredom that they try to fill with looting, sex, music (produced by the deranged Borgia Ginz, played by Jack Birkett, aka Orlando), mindless aggro, and the occasional recreational murder. (The story doesn't ever spell out exactly why the world is ending, but anyone living in the gloomy inflationary austerity of late '70s Britain hardly needed any elaboration on that score.)

Even if you don't recognize the various punk and New Wave figures who appear throughout, the film captures the early punk sensibility pretty well, although for all its mayhem, its aura of studied disaffection makes it rather slow-moving and occasionally dull. This seems intentional — the characters themselves are desperately bored, and while everyone's still going through the motions out of inertia or nostalgia, the point is that there is no point.

For all that, JUBILEE is still significantly less cynical than the later LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS (which also features an array of punk stars), and occasionally manages to seem strangely wistful. CONTAINS LESBIANS? There's a fair amount of gay sex, but the closest it gets to wlw is a scene where Bod and Mad do a little knife-play. VERDICT: Definitely an acquired taste, but if you have any interest in punk, New Wave, or post punk, it's essential viewing. As a companion piece, try the somewhat earlier THE FINAL PROGRAMME (also with Jenny Runacre), based on Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius novel, which is similar in tone and sensibility.

#movies #jubilee 1978 #derek jarman #punk #new wave #jenny runacre #toyah willcox #nell campbell #pamela rooke #jordan mooney #linda spurrier #the final programme #jerry cornelius #if you think paramore and green day are punk this may not be for you #but you might learn something #music

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gothgleek · 10 months

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