Judy Blame is a real–deal fashion leg–end. From the early 80s to the present day, this multi–tasking stylist / jeweller / designer / art director has relentlessly rocked a look across the upper echelons of high fashion and pop music. His madcap aesthetic continues to influence other designers, stylists and creative types, even now: in the customisation frenzy that has swept throughFashionland, the debt to Judy’s earlier roughly – hewn efforts from the 80s – eagerly collected by devotees around the world – is glaringly obvious.

Blame’s take on style results in a cacophony of clever collage, sloganeering and printing, as easily applied to pop videos and catwalks as it is to album sleeves and necklaces. His DIY origins and punk past result in endlessly scavenged chains, safety pins, rope, string, bottle tops, champagne corks, feathers, buttons, buttons and more buttons being re–worked and refined in the Blame garret, transformed overnight into something oddly elegant. His jewellery designs have attracted a new generation of international fans, and Judy has now styled, designed–for and art–directed Neneh Cherry, Björk, Massive Attack, Boy George, Baaba Maal, Iggy Pop and, most recently, Kylie, among others. He has collaborated with designers like John Galliano, Rifat Ozbek, Christopher Nemeth, Jessica Ogden, Philip Treacy, Comme Des Garcons, Gilles Rosie, Giles Deacon and Louise Gray, and enlivened many a style mag in the past two decades via fashion spreads shot with power–snappers like Nick Knight, Glen Lutchford, Juergen Teller, Mark Lebon and Jean Baptiste Mondino.

In between all of this he has been a face on the London club scene, a cult figure in Japan, and always in the international front row.