We were on King’s Road, once one of the centres of London punk in the 1970s, with Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren right at the heart of it.
Today, the neighbourhood is high-end Chelsea lifestyle, with polished boutiques, design, restaurants and expensive addresses. Vivienne Westwood is still here, but the punk aesthetic that once challenged fashion has become part of luxury fashion.
She said, “I wanna live like London. I wanna do whatever you do in London.”
I said, “I’ll see what I can do.”
So I took her to an empty street in Chelsea. I don’t know why, but you have to start somewhere, and somehow it started there, beside an old red telephone box.
I said, “Pretend we’re tourists, just for a second.”
She laughed and said, “Oh, you’re so funny.”
I said, “Yeah, well, let’s take the selfie anyway.”
You wanna live like London.
You wanna see whatever I see in London.
I’ve been looking so long for you on my Tube travels.
That I almost believe you’re there on the same line as me.
Remembering the day you stood quietly at Leicester Square.
As I ran to your heart to be near.
