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
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.
golden geese
Don't kill the golden goose.
young dies
Too fast to live, too young to die.
boredom
What are the politics of boredom?
girl mother art
I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.
fighting doors two
There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.
nursing cities shoes
The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.
kings crazy adventure
I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.
punk youtube posts
I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.
creative t-shirt shirts
It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.