On this episode we speak with the London-based fashion and interior design journalist and photographer Mark C. O’Flaherty. Mark is the author of The Narrative Thread, a book about the relationship of fashion collectors to their clothes, and a regular contributor to the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, the World of Interiors, among others.
We talked about the early ’90s London club and queer culture and how it influenced London’s fashion scene, Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s enduring sway over it, his work with Alexander McQueen, about the now forgotten London fashion heroes Body Map. We discuss Mark’s almost accidental career, the difference between writing about and shooting fashion and interiors, and frustrations about doing genuine journalism today.
