Sound and Vision: music and fashion photographed by Francesco Mellina, Liverpool, 1978 - 82. An exhibition at the National Conservation Centre, 1 May to 31 August 2009.

Seated group of New Romantics in Cagney's club, off London Road, 1981

men and women in new romantic clothes and make-up

© Francesco Mellina

"People who work nine to five and then go out and live their fantasies. They're glad to be dressed up and escaping work and all the greyness and depression."
Steve Strange

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