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hackers: online exhibition tour

HACKERS: Costumes from the Motion Picture

3 Dec 2020 - 26 June 2021

This exhibition has now ended after an extension into late June 2021. Thank you from all of us at the HH to everyone who came down, and for all your kind comments. Let us know if you’d like to see the costumes elsewhere - we’d love this exhibition to travel so that more people can see it, and we’re always interested in getting out of London!

For those of you who weren't able to visit in person and for those who just want more !

The Horse Hospital is pleased to present an exclusive guided tour of the Hackers costume exhibition with the film's costume designer Roger K. Burton.

Hear about the inspiration and original styling for the film’s costumes, and first-hand stories from behind the scenes, how everything came together for this timeless and much-loved movie, which continues to influence today’s street fashion subcultures.

You will learn how the films wardrobe process works, and the way cast reacted to their eclectic outfits, plus much more background information, making this tour a must see for every fan and aficionado of the movie.

BRIAN GRIFFIN

13TH APRIL 1948 - 29TH JANUARY 2024 

Announcement - just you remembering...

Brian Griffin aka Beeg aka DJ Baron Bromide

In his 75th year on earth, the lifelong surrealist and photographic genius has passed on to another universe..!

Having known Brian as a close friend and co-creator for over 40 years, my stories of our crazy adventures together are countless and far too many to even start to relate. I know for sure that everyone he ever touched will have their own personal memories and hold them dear to their hearts and give them solace in the coming months.

Ramificate, Coagulate, Moreover…!

Baron Bromide signing off..

Roger K. Burton

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RIP - Dame Vivienne Westwood

29th December 2022

The world has just lost one of the most remarkable, influential and fearless women that ever lived, a woman who could truly say that she did it her way. Whether it be through her revolutionary clothes designs, confrontational slogans or politics, she was entirely committed to free speech, equality and saving the planet right to the end, trail-blazing throughout her life with the spirit of a modern day suffragette...

 

From the first time I saw her in the early 70s, clanking down the Kings Road, with that shock of cropped blonde hair, biker t-shirt, leather mini skirt, ripped tights and Persian lamb boots chained together, to the very last time I spoke to her about 4 years ago when we were both cycling up the Mall, Vivienne was always unmistakable. That glorious day I spotted her way off in the distance looking like a very chic homeless person with ripped and faded clothes flapping in the wind. She had on one of those oversize 80s silk blouson jackets with a vivid Picasso print on it, bits of printed fabric wrapped around her body and head, gold cupid print stockings, red high heel court shoes and her then black lips and signature red eyebrows, and she looked fucking incredible! She casually mentioned she had been asked to give advice to the Duke of Edinburgh at Clarence House about something that she couldn’t really remember, but she wasted no time in inviting me to a lecture she was giving about the perils of fracking. It was a joyous, uplifting and unforgettable encounter and so typical of the woman we all loved and admired so much.

 

Vivienne always had an amazing enthusiasm for all things stylish and was obsessed with historical dress and detail. I remember only too well spending an entire day at her flat in Clapham in 1979, as she bombarded me with influences and ideas for her latest pirate collection for the new Worlds End shop I was about to design. Every surface of her tiny living room was piled high with historical reference books, art books, fashion magazines, records and bin liners full of clothes.. Amidst it all, Vivienne talked infectiously about her influences as she constantly rifled through old books showing me fabulous reference pictures of colonialized Native Americans at the turn of the century sporting top hats and frock coats decorated with feathers and war-paint, and infamous 18th century pirates, wearing customized Naval uniforms, alongside her passion for science fiction. I got a clear message that with this new collection she was going to create a world of style which would drag the past screaming into the future. Vivienne and Malcolm had already thrown the rule book out of the window years ago and changed fashion forever, so nothing was going to stop her now.

 

When we were building the Worlds End shop Vivienne would occasionally stop by on her bike, always dressed immaculately in one of her latest creations, even so she was always very hands on and never afraid to pick up a hammer or paint brush. She was fascinated with the shop build being an organic process, always encouraging teamwork and lending great vision to the project. We would have lengthy discussions over where and how the clothes should be displayed, and that the key outfits be displayed in a line on metal scarecrows like drunken sailors. She always maintained a strong belief that ideas should be shared and in effect be a collaboration, with no one person receiving full credit. She would obsess about different paint finishes and in particular the interior colour of the shop, which was actually re-painted five times until we got the right subtle shade of turquoise, such was her attention to detail.


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I am really pleased that The Horse Hospital has been able to secure a new lease with the support of our Culture at Risk Office. It is crucial that we continue to support spaces for emerging artists, which will be vital in sustaining central London’s cultural vibrancy as the capital recovers from the pandemic. I look forward to visiting this unique space as soon as it can reopen.
— Justine Simons OBE, Deputy Mayor for Culture and the Creative Industries, March 2021

A NOTE FROM ALAN MOORE

There’s not another venue like it on the planet. The Horse Hospital, crouched there in Bloomsbury on Colonnade’s chopped-off corner since the 18th century, engulfs the visitor on entry in its cask-aged atmospherics, otherworldly and unique...
— Alan Moore, March 2020
Image: Knockabout Comics[Image description: Black and white photograph of Alan Moore. The light is dim, the background is black and his face is lit in low light from below.]

Image: Knockabout Comics

[Image description: Black and white photograph of Alan Moore. The light is dim, the background is black and his face is lit in low light from below.]

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