Paul Smith on His Favourite Ever Album Sleeves

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Music is no minor influence for Sir Paul Smith. The septuagenarian designer has long found inspiration in London’s sonorous subcultures, from the burgeoning reggae, roots and dub scene of 1960s and 70s Notting Hill, through to the intimate live gigs that emerging bands continue to play in his stores today. “Growing up as a kid in Nottingham, music was initially the reason I’d come down to London – for gigs, he explains. “I remember crashing on the floor of a mate’s house…