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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Lauren Cochrane

Dressing for the dancefloor: creative explosion behind 80s’ most colourful club

Boy George and Leigh Bowery at the Limelight Club in London.
Boy George and Leigh Bowery at the Limelight Club in London. Photograph: Brendan Beirne/Shutterstock

With ITV’s drama Joan on our screens and the bubble skirt back on the catwalks, the 80s are once again having a moment. An exhibition at London’s Fashion and Textile Museum, Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London, takes a different look – by going deep into the creative explosion on the dancefloors of the decade.

It focuses on Taboo, a London club that lasted barely a year but was pivotal in the careers of people including the singer Boy George, the designers John Galliano and Katharine Hamnett, the choreographer Michael Clark and the performance artist Leigh Bowery, who started the club in 1985.

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