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Granny Takes a Trip

High Fashion and High Times at the Wildest Rock 'n' Roll Boutique

Author: Paul Gorman  

Granny Takes a Trip
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The story of the legendary 60s boutique, Granny Takes a Trip, and the lives and stories of the eccentric characters who visited the shop

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The story of the legendary 60s boutique, Granny Takes a Trip, and the lives and stories of the eccentric characters who visited the shop

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Granny Takes A Trip was more than just a shop and a fashion brand; it was the original rock and roll clothes boutique, the template for all that followed. What started as an odd retail venture/art installation in a depressed part of London known as World's End became an international byword for glam decadence in Manhattan and Hollywood, combining flamboyant style and all manner of countercultural activity to attract everyone from Pattie Boyd, Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg to Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, the Beatles, and Lou Reed.

Unfolding over a decade-and-a-half, this tumultuous story invokes a cast of often unique, sometimes entitled, unusually talented and troubled individuals on a collective mission to shake up austere, repressed, class-ridden Britain and white bread America. Some achieved this at great personal cost as darkness, addiction and tragedy stalked those behind the extraordinary shop facades.

Much mythologised but never told, this cautionary tale has now found its definitive chronicler in celebrated cultural historian Paul Gorman who has had access to first-hand accounts from all the principal figures, as well as notes for a memoir and a much-treasured scrapbook by Freddie Hornik, the tailoring entrepreneur who survived the death marches of central Europe after WW2 to acquire Granny Takes A Trip in the late 60s and transform into an unparalleled pop cultural force.

Beautifully illustrated with archival images of the shop, principal players and the clothes themselves, this book concludes with a never-seen-before 48-page tour through the Rolling Stones' wild wardrobe of sartorial delights tailored and sold in the original shop.

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About the Author

Paul Gorman is a writer, curator and cultural commentator. His books include The Story Of The Face: The Magazine That Changed Culture, The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren, Totally Wired: The Rise & Fall Of The Music Press, The Look: Adventures in Rock & Pop Fashion, The Wild World of Barney Bubbles, Straight with Boy George and Nine Lives with Goldie. Gorman has also contributed to the world's leading publications and staged exhibitions concerning fashion, media and visual and popular culture in the US, Denmark, France and the UK.

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Product Details

Publisher
Orion Publishing Co | White Rabbit
Published
25th September 2025
Pages
304
ISBN
9781399623612

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