Alexander Fury, writer and curator
“I fell in love with Antony Price’s work when I was a kid growing up in the Northern English countryside – probably because its avaricious, predatory glamour was about as far removed from the humdrum lives I saw as it was possible to be. Glamour, fantasy and sex was what Price was all about, is all about, because his work lives on, immortalised like no other fashion in the vision of those postmodern pin-ups, the Roxy Music girls. Kari-Ann [Muller] as a reimagined [Alberto] Vargas heroine; Amanda Lear as a whiplash of ciré [fabric] leashed to an imaginary panther; Jerry ‘Ferry’ Hall as a siren crawling across the rocks of Anglesey Bay, with Antony mocking up a version of that cover with the Sizewell B nuclear reactor in the background. And, for [the cover of Roxy’s 1978 album] Manifesto, a frozen party of his own mannequins dressed in lamé and satin. They’re incredible, indelible, impossible images of unassailable glamour.
But I was also lucky enough to know Antony as a friend. I first spoke to him when I was at Central Saint Martins as a besotted student, writing my thesis on his work; later, at SHOWstudio, my first major project was around his work, which was when I finally got to meet him. He wound up calling me Kathy – after Bates, the actress – because I was his biggest fan [Bates played the stalker fan in Misery]. He was, fittingly, Misery Price, because Antony was one of the most self-deprecating yet hilariously deadpan people I have ever met. He had names for everyone. He was, however, fiercely proud of his work, confident of his abilities, a paradox. Antony knew he was a great designer, a magnificent technician, one of the greats. He just never got told that enough, in my opinion. His exceptional collaboration with Marco and 16Arlington was a rare measure of recognition for his talents – a fashion show staged 35 years after his last, and one that demonstrated his sheer brilliance. I’ll miss Antony’s endless invention, the greatness of his clothes. But I’ll miss him more.”
10 Magazine Issue 76 – CREATIVITY, CHANGE, FREEDOM – is out on newsstands March 18. Pre-order your copy here.
HIGH PRICE
Photographer JENNY BROUGH
Fashion Editor OLIVER VOLQUARDSEN
Text CLAUDIA CROFT
Models RAYA MARTIGNY at Go See and PETER MACH at D1 Models
Hair TYLER JOHNSTON at One Represents
Make-up TERRY BARBER at David Artists using M.A.C COSMETICS
Manicurist LIIA ZOTOVA using ADORE PROFESSIONAL
Set designer PENNY MILLS
Photographer’s assistants ROBIN BERNSTEIN and DANIELE ROVERSI
Fashion assistant ELSA DEESON
Digital operator HO HAI TRAN
Make-up assistant SABINA GATEJ
Production ZAC APOSTOLOU
Post-production MONICA CHAMORRO
Special thanks to ALEXANDER FURY, STEVEN PHILIP and KAREN CLARKSON