Blitz Kids: Designing our own Future

Known for her part in the New Romantic cultural club movement, Julia was a regular devotee of the Blitz Club from the very beginning. Her look – including a beehive and heavy eyeliner – has become synonymous with the Blitz scene of 1978, and influences catwalks to this day. Taking up DJing in the mid-80s, Julia continues this work as part of a countercultural lifestyle that blends the arts, fashion and music.

Writer, blogger, musician, and former club kid, Andy was one of the London faces of early club culture. Baptised in the 70s pop, disco and punk scene, he emerged with fellow squat housemates Boy George and Marilyn onto the music scene. Polaris was a singer songwriter for jazz-influenced Animal Nightlife, and more recently seen in Iris prize winning documentary 'Beyond: There Is Always A Black Issue Dear'.

Born in Merthyr Tydfil, painter, writer, and internationally-renowned DJ Chris Sullivan met Steve Strange at a Northern Soul event in 1975; they eventually teamed up to create their club Hell. Sullivan’s solo projects included the combo Blue Rondo à la Turk and Soho’s Wag Club. He was GQ style editor, as well as a journalist for Italian L’Uomo Vogue, Dazed and Big Issue. He lectures at CSM on the history of subcultures and has penned the books Punk, We Can Be Heroes, and Rebel, Rebel.

Danielle is a curator, writer, broadcaster, and lecturer with a dual focus on contemporary craft and design, and eighteenth-century sculpture and decorative arts. Currently Curator at the Design Museum and Curator of Blitz: the Club that Shaped the 80s, Danielle was previously Curator of Making at the Museum of London and an assistant curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She is a BBC New Generation Thinker, and the recipient of an Art Fund New Collecting Award.

A major exhibition on the legendary Blitz club night that transformed 1980s London style, and generated a creative scene that had an enormous impact on popular culture in the decade that followed — from fashion and music, to film, art and design.