'The grandfather s of these young stylists toil in the tailoring sweatshops of Fashion Street fifty years earlier and their fathers own a small outfitters in Kingsland Waste, so it is not at all surprising that their clothes are at the forefront of fashion and in the most modern Italian and French styles. In fact, this crowd refer to themselves as “modernists” and they are the forerunners of the gentile “mods” who emerge over the next few years with their sharp bri-nylon anoraks, scooters and op art imagery and cause headlines at the Easter weekend holiday in Clacton in 1964. According to some commentator s who are not even born at the time and are certainly never on Stamford Hill, the term apparently comes from these kids’ preoccupati on with modern jazz, though there is little reason to imagine that teenagers in north east London have much in the way of contact with modern jazz, and that the term might as well come from modern art or architectur e. Although actually, it comes from their own fathers, who use the word “modern” as a way of selling the latest designs in clothing to their customers.'


Penny Reel 2009 'meeting with markie'