THE BRIGHTON CONTINGENT
The Brighton Contingent is SWH’s most recent collection, shot in March 2020 during the rising anxiety of the Covid-19 pandemic and just days before UK lockdown; the last blowout before this group of musicians, musos, artists and agitators went their separate ways.
Inspired by The Bromley Contingent, a crew of creative teens who listened to Roxy Music, borrowed ideas from Bowie and became the entourage that followed the Sex Pistols in the ‘70s, helping to popularise the fashion of the UK punk movement. They customised their clothes and style, appropriating design & iconography, ripping up and remaking, making beautiful-ugly a cultural movement that dominated it’s era. And with it, characters like Billy Idol, Sioxsie Sioux and Soo Catwoman revolutionised social groups, impacted politics & shifted public opinion.
Hair Styling - SWH Creative Team under the direction of Simon Webster
Make up - Xoe Kingsley
Styling - Models Own
Photographer - Chris Bulezuik
Shot at the Brighton Studio
