Studio Archive – steven thomas design

Nostalgia just ain’t wot it used to be……………… this is just a quick wallow through a bunch of old pix.

The original Whitmore-Thomas logo, 1971 style, in Biba days.

Marlboro country, 1965; Chad Hall's studio in the badlands of London W8. They wanted cool for Europe; Chad was – he always was, I wasn't. But they liked the result.

Chris Angell, the best designer in the entire world, whom I have been lucky enough to work with since 1971, & I at my show.

My son Jamie, British Army officer, gentleman & heavyweight boxer & I, beating him to a pulp – as if!

The excellent Mick Jones ex-Clash, BAD, currently Carbon Silicon & The Rotten Hill Mob, & I at his ChelseaSpace show The Rock'n'Roll Public Library.

The beautiful Eleanor Powell, Biba store manager and I at the national launch of the Biba Cosmetics range in 1969. Our modular black gloss & mirrored cosmetic units appeared initially in 3000 Dorothy Perkins stores across the UK & then across the entire universe.

From the top l-r: me as a blond; James Traill; our studio on the Roof Garden; Mick Partlett and Chris Angell as teenagers; Chris' 10th anniversary party with Sheena and Alan Mowbray; Alan's 30th birthday; me as art student; 'Chateau des Artistes' with Chen Ling.

Alan 'Fluff' Freeman, a well known DJ, in 1967 with Peter Frampton & Gary Taylor of the Herd, (a rock combo I discovered in a previous life), wearing their stage clothes that I designed. Ho Ho! Get the sequins!