When Liz Taylor and Richard Burton decided to publicly express their love for each other in 1970, they chose Tommy Roberts to create matching T-Shirts with sequinned portraits. Roberts designed for Mick Jagger, Elton John and Jimi Hendrix, and became an integral part of 60s London with his label Mr Freedom. Paul Gorman celebrates the man who became a magnet for the most famous and stylish people in the world. With an impressive array of images, a stellar cast of contributors and unlimited access to his subject, Mr Freedom traces the career of Tommy Roberts.
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By Tony
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If you were in the London 60s scene you will love this book about Tommy Roberts aka Mr Freedom. Memories will come flooding back.
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By daisydot
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Paul Gorman's beautifully illustrated and well-written biography of the fashion and design entrepreneur Tommy Roberts throws a deserved and long overdue spotlight on a man who helped shape British pop fashion of the early seventies. There was so much more to the Roberts story and his influence on British design - as Sir Paul Smith readily acknowledges in his introduction - than I was aware of. A former Goldsmith's art student, Roberts started off near Carnaby Street in the swinging sixties selling military dress uniforms to such rock luminaries as Jimi Hendrix and The Who. But it was as his alter ego, the flamboyant Mr Freedom, that he introduced the fizzing bright comic book colours of Pop Art and the imagery of Disney cartoons to British fashion and became famous as a result.
Mr Freedom first found expression in a Chelsea World's End boutique (in premises later taken over by Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood) before moving to a larger store at the bottom of Kensington Church Street, opposite Biba. With Kensington Market just around the corner, the area became the focal point of trendy London with Mr Freedom at the forefront. Robert's designs were worn on stage and film by Elton John, Mick Jagger, David Bowie and Marc Bolan and his famous T shirts were snapped up almost as soon as they went on sale. Paul Gorman's carefully researched story also takes us through Robert's days as music manager of Ian Dury and Kilburn and the High Roads, his pioneering of fashion retail in London's Covent Garden, through the post modernist hi tech design ethos of his shop Practical Styling, right up to his present day Tom Tom -a contemporary furniture shop just the other side of Shoreditch. Robert's, ahead of the crowd, as always, opened his premises in 2001. Mr Freedom - Tommy Roberts: British Design Hero, is an essential read for anyone interested in British design and Pop culture.
Mr Freedom first found expression in a Chelsea World's End boutique (in premises later taken over by Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood) before moving to a larger store at the bottom of Kensington Church Street, opposite Biba. With Kensington Market just around the corner, the area became the focal point of trendy London with Mr Freedom at the forefront. Robert's designs were worn on stage and film by Elton John, Mick Jagger, David Bowie and Marc Bolan and his famous T shirts were snapped up almost as soon as they went on sale. Paul Gorman's carefully researched story also takes us through Robert's days as music manager of Ian Dury and Kilburn and the High Roads, his pioneering of fashion retail in London's Covent Garden, through the post modernist hi tech design ethos of his shop Practical Styling, right up to his present day Tom Tom -a contemporary furniture shop just the other side of Shoreditch. Robert's, ahead of the crowd, as always, opened his premises in 2001. Mr Freedom - Tommy Roberts: British Design Hero, is an essential read for anyone interested in British design and Pop culture.
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The truth
8 Nov 2012
By Jim O'Connor
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The cover of this book is a travesty and so is the book description above. Tommy Roberts was not a designer. He was a businessman who employed designers. Whoever wrote this book description could not have looked inside this book. This book is misusing the designs of others on its cover to falsely promote Mr Roberts as a designer. It is very frustrating for the actual designers whose work you see on the cover of this book to have their work misappropriated. I call it plagiarism or intellectual property theft, and all involved should be embarrassed for this shameful scam.
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