They’re the toppers

The King’s Road has seen some sights. Once a private highway so royalty need not queue en route to Kew, by the sixties Chelsea’s high street had metamorphosed into a mecca for modish counterculture. Skimpy skirts and kinky boots electrified the locale as Mitford and Mosley types moved out and Mary Quant and Malcolm McLaren moved in. But little lasts for long and the march of the neo-gentry has seen the scene shift again; the strip is once more the home of the moneyed, if not always the connected, classes. I say little lasts for long because there remain a few fixed points in this ever-changing world. Two of them are Martin Ellis Jones and his partner Alexandra Shanahan. You may not have heard of them, but they know everybody…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2023

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