"For me, punk rock really made me very clothes-conscious.
“I don’t like it when it gets all-over shiny I like it when it’s mixed-up, you know? We’ve always been an aspirational brand, in a way, and we kind of dressed that way, but I also like it when it keeps its street roots, where it’s still got a nod towards a sort of punk-rock thing,” Taylor says. “We’re always trying to find that mix of high/low. (Photo: EMI) Entering the house of Sprouse And I think that for me, that’s why clothes and music are always going to be connected.”ĭuran Duran's 'Decade' compilation cover art, 1989.
It was the first time I ever heard Kraftwerk or Japan in a nightclub, and it had a tremendous energy to it. And the soundtrack was the beginning of electro - the end of punk, the end of glam. It was very vintage-oriented, but there was also a modern, futurist thing going on. “I loved walking in there and seeing the way kids were dressing, the way they were bleaching their hair, sweeping their hair back, wearing '40s suits and cocktail dresses and heels. “It was this confluence of post-punk people, looking to experiment, to define themselves, to identify themselves through music and clothes,” Taylor tells Yahoo Entertainment, recalling the Rum Runner scene that had such an effect on his early style sense. In honor of Duran Duran Appreciation Day ( yes, that’s a real holiday, look it up), we asked Duran Duran bassist John Taylor to give us some weekend party inspo and share the stylish stories behind some of Duran Duran’s most iconic looks. And they’ve been pop’s best-dressed boys on film ever since. The new wave icons were at the forefront of the late ‘70s/early ‘80s fashion-focused New Romantic movement, and they developed their early style in the legendary dance club that gave the band its start, Birmingham, England’s Rum Runner. (Photo: Getty Images)įew current artists, even in today’s Instagram-obsessed era, dress as fabulously as Duran Duran themselves.
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