London Fashion By Brian Duffy

During the 1960s, Duffy captured the fashion of the day for leading magazines with historic landmarks of London in the background.

His work in fashion was constant throughout his entire career. With a strong understanding of garments due to his history in fashion design gained from St. Martin’s, Duffy started to pursue photography in 1958. He became an assistant to Adrian Flowers, during which he did his first fashion shoot for The Sunday Times.Later that year, he was picked up by British Vogue. Subsequently, he became a regular contributor to French Elle Magazine.

Throughout his career, he also shot for The Sunday Times Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Telegraph Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, Queen, Town, King, Nova, The Observer, Ritz, Tatler and many others.

Duffy worked with major models of the period including Jean Shrimpton who he introduced to his close friend David Bailey.

Duffy was already a leading photographic artist when I started to work within the photographic trade in 1964, later opening up my own studio in Guilford High Street. At the start of the digital age my Hasselblad retired and Tristans Gallery was born.

The swinging 60s was a trouble free time with outstanding music and inexpensive entertainment.

Jimi Hendrix electrified the stage with his guitar, and there was a new blues band that started playing at the local club. That band eventually became the legend known as The Rolling Stones.

It also gave birth to Carnaby Street and Biba at Kensington Market, where all the boys and girls respectively went to shop for the latest fits.

I felt that Kings Road was the center of the Universe. It was where legends were made and life was booming with activity.

-Edward