John Cooper Clarke: Brit Punk Poet

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With his dark clothing, pointed shoes and signature backcombed raven coiffure, John Cooper Clarke acted as the inspiration for this week’s LCM Topman show. He penned a poem for the brand under the moniker Apparel Jim, which was placed on every seat in the audience, citing pea coats, heavy tread boots and pac-a-macs as the soon-to-be trends of A/W14: prophesising "apparel but not as you know it".

"The original ‘punk...