Career Profile: Roger Burton, curator and stylist

Roger Burton, former mod and fringe stylist extraordinaire, supplied the clothing for the film Quadrophenia, opened the influential PX clothing store in Covent Garden in the early eighties, was commissioned to design Westwood and McClaren’s Worlds End shop after a chance meeting with her in a pub, and hosted one of the first ever retrospective exhibitions of punk clothing. He currently runs the Horse Hospital arts centre in London, which has been described as London’s true home of the avant garde. The Horse Hospital also houses his Contemporary Wardrobe, one of the largest private collections of 20th Century youth and street fashion.