User talk:Contemporary Wardrobe

October 2021
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You still won't be allowed to write about what you've written about if you're connected to it. What material would you edit other than that if we unblocked you and changed your username? Daniel Case (talk) 17:37, 21 October 2021 (UTC)


 * I loosely know the person I am writing about (Roger K.Burton) who has a long history as a huge contributor in popular culture. All I want is for his memory to live on, he is approaching an older age and has not yet had a wikipedia page written about him. He has worked with important names in the counter culture industry and I only wish to make sure he is remembered. There is no promotion of my business related to it. I would continue to edit the page whenever I found out knew information about him, things that would ignite the minds of the curious! Should anything arise in connection to him I would inquire as to whether it is possible to connect to him but other than that I don't think there would be much more revolving around it! thank you for your time — Preceding unsigned comment added by Contemporary Wardrobe (talk • contribs)


 * Mr. Burton needs to have been the subject of significant third-party writings to be considered notable by Wikipedia's definition. You would be expected to provide references to multiple reliable sources for us to verify that he is notable enough for inclusion. Please be aware that merely being associated with notable people or things isn't enough - notability is not inherited. As well, Wikipedia articles must be written from a dispassionate neutral point of view, with no intent to promote the subject or provoke emotional responses from readers. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 17:03, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

I have compiled a list of some useful sources who speak of Roger: - Vivienne Westwood: An Unfashionable Life Jane Mulvagh Harper Collins Publisher, 1998. London p.147 ‘Initially McLaren approached David Connors, who had helped create Seditionaries, but his designs were deemed both too expensive and not sufficiently hard-edged. Having admired Roger Burton’s shop PX in Covent Garden, which had been constructed out of air ducting salvaged from the old MI5 building in Conduit Street and styled to look like a ship’s engine room-cum US Army store, McLaren summoned Burton to a meeting in the Nightingale Lane flat. After pushing his way down the corridor, past sagging clothes racks and unravelled bolts of cloth, Burton entered the book and record-strewn bedroom and the meeting commenced on the bed. ‘I want Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe,’ McLaren explain, adding that they had no budget. ‘Vivienne was in the background fiddling with clothes,’ remembers Burton, ‘and Malcolm was constantly on the phone trying to have two conversations at once, so I could never wholly got their attention.’

p.161 ‘A new look required a new shop, and when McLaren and Vivienne heard that the lease was due for renewal on ground-floor and basement premises in St.Christopher’s Place, off Oxford Street, they summoned Burton again. […] Developing the theme of buried plunder, Burton designed the shop’s entrance in an austere Regency manner, and created surprise by means of a collapsed floor, as if the building had been struck by an earthquake, revealing another, secret world of darkest Africa below. Using scaffolding, he transported the customer down into an ‘archeologist dig,’ towards Vivienne’s treasure.’

p.294 ‘In February 1993 Roger Burton, the owner of Contemporary Wardrobe, which provided post-war outfits for films, held a retrospective of Vivienne and McLaren’s ‘couture’ clothes from Let It Rock, Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die, SEX and Seditionairies entitled ‘Vive Le Punk!’ at his offices, an old horse hospital in Bloomsbury.’

- The Look, Adventures in Rock & Pop Fashion Paul Gorman Adelita, 2006. London

p.63 ‘Not that London had the lock on mod, as pointed out by Roger Burton, owner of Contemporary Wardrobe and The Horse Hospital. He witnessed stylistic moves being made in Oadby, a satellite town of Leicester, which, in the early to mid 60s was the richest city in Europe.’ p.142 ‘Another supplier was Roger Burton – part of Raynor’s crowd of Midlands dealers – who was in partnership with Rick Carter and by the mid-70s was ‘selling shitloads of vintage clothes’ source from dead stock all over the country to outlets such as Lloyd Johnson’s in Kensington Market and several in the King’s Road.’

p.160 ‘[…]Burton was charged with creating the correct environment. ‘My idea was to have it like a general store, a PX where you could buy not only clothing but also tins of beans, cigarettes, stuff like that,’ he says. ‘The idea was that it should be a cross between an underground bunker, a gymnasium and a U-boat, quite claustrophobic with no shop window so outsiders couldn’t see what was going on.;

p.172 ‘By this time Burton was operating a film hire company Contemporary Wardrobe with Jack English out of premises that also housed The Stranglers’ management near Borough Market, across the river from the City of London. […] Jack had been in a pub in The King’s Road with Vivienne, who told him she really liked what I had done with PX,’ says the rangy Burton in the arts centre he operates in London’s Bloomsbury, the Horse Hospital. ‘I went to their flat and they gave me the parameters, which were the look of The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari and The Old Curiosity Shop. There was also talk of a galleon and Malcolm also wanted it to look like a curch belfry, with love ceilings, claustrophobic. One suggestion was to have a huge bell hanging outside, and the idea of a huge clock on the front whirring backwards was there from the start.’

-The Collector’s Book of Twentieth-Century Fashion Frances Kennett Granada Publishing, 1981. Herts. p.95 ‘Roger Burton runs a company in London under the name of Contemporary Wardrobe. It is based on his personal collection of 1950s and 1960s clothes, which he started as early as 1970 while running a second-hand shop in the Midlands. At first he collected clothes for his own interest, then gradually found a market for them in London, and finally moved there to set up his own enterprise which specializes in dressing films and plays of the period. One of the larger tasks was the costuming of Quadrophenia with The Who. Over the years he has become immensely knowledgeable on the period and advises new collectors to start by reading contemporary magazines and to study the films which depict the period, to develop a sense of style. His collection comprises men’s a women’s wear, and some accessories, such as the wide, wildly patterned ties and the stiletto-heeled shoes which were so prevalent.’

- If Looks Could Kill ‘”So What!” Two Tales of Juvenile Delinquency’ by Roger K.Burton p.204 2008, Koening Books, Fashion in Film Festival, London.

- Hackers, (Pamphlet) 1995. p.3 What to Wear to a Hacking? ‘For the hackers themselves, Iain Softley had costume designer Roger Burton follow the current trend of techno-wear […] Scouring second-hand clothing stores, thrift shops – and even street-side vendors’ tables – for clothing with a credible ‘street’ look, Burton combined what he found with orginal designs to set the characters of the hackers a breed apart. […] [The] look ranges from what Burton calls ‘the post-cyberpunk, apocalyptic, almost paramilitary” clothing worn by Dade.’

-Esquire Japan. March 1992. p.112 Roger K. Burton: Youthquake

-Arena, June 2008. Bauer p.26 ‘So you could call Roger K Burton the country’s foremost youth culture historian. For the past 30 years, this costume designer and stylist has collected British and American street looks dating from 1947 to the present, amassing over 15000 garments, which make up his contemporary wardrobe collection.’

-Creative Review, October 1997. Centaur, London. p.63 Style Matters: Roger Burton ‘Burton began hanging around the fringes of punk and then met director Julian Temple. The collaborated on pop videos throughout the 1980s until Burton got into art directing and styling for commercials. His credits include ads for Kellogg’s and Boddingtons among others.’

-Textiles, Issue 3. 2017 p.22 Rebel Threads (Roger K. Burton) ‘In the forward to Rebel Threads, clothing of the Bad, Beautiful and Misunderstood, Film Director, Julian Temple, comments “Once upon a time to be young meant you got to cast yourself in the movie of your own life… Whether you were a Beat, a Mod, a Hippie, or a Punk, you became part of a tribe which defined itself around the potential of what you could be.” The author of the book, Roger Burton “is the infinite collector and master curator…” and has and “…enduring passion for and profound knowledge about what lies behind every stitch of these clothes that changed the world.’

-Observer, 15th November 1979. P125 Dedicated Followers of Fashion Contemporary Wardrobe is probably the world’s only collection of clothes for hire spanning the last 30 years. The two ex-Mods who run it can conjure up a Christine Keeler outfit in seconds.’ Val Hennessy

-Journal Bloomsbury, Winter 2017. p.52 Cathi Unsworth ‘When Roger K. Burton first stepped inside The Horse Hospital on he Colonnade, it was not a pretty sight. “The building had been unsused for about 10 years when my friend Guy Adams found it on a recce to Bloomsbury in 1993. When we first got in the door there were pigeons flying about, rats and mice everywhere and ivy growing through the collapsed roof; not to mention a thick layer of printing ink completely covering up the fabulous floor.’

I hope this clarifies things! thank you for your time!

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