London’s dying nightlife is killing the fashion club kid
As venues across the capital continue to shutter, we speak to fashion figures about what culture loses when the clubs are all gone

London’s club kids are a very particular species. Though they hide in plain sight during the day, nighttime is when they assume their final form, inhabiting the various characters they long to be: a Napoleonic general or the last empress of Russia; a Victorian aristocrat or a pale-faced mime. They use fashion as a tool for self-invention, rewriting their own lives through vivid clothes and vibrant make-up. This experimentation often generates new creative movements which are thenhellip;
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