Malcolm Mclaren
Malcolm Mclaren
Malcolm Robert Andrew McLarenwas a British musician, impresario, visual artist, performer, clothes designer and boutique owner, notable for combining these activities in an inventive and provocative way...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth22 January 1946
fashion art design
Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
young dies
Too fast to live, too young to die.
boredom
What are the politics of boredom?
trying junkie ifs
Try managing a junkie - especially if you've never been one yourself.
golden geese
Don't kill the golden goose.
clever kind benign
To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success
life-changing what-matters fearless
What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.
hate disrespectful this-society
Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.
beautiful rocks facts
The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.
running new-york paris
Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!
art stealing-things world
Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.
thinking order ideas
I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
art communication technology
Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.
sex successful pistols
I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.