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					HOUSE OF BEAUTY AND CULTURE - PHOTO ARCHIVE 1986 -
		Christoher Nemeth was the designer who turned customising into a fine art, stitching mail bags and rope, photocopies and parts of second hand Hardy Amies suits into his clothes.  With no formal,  trained background in fashion design, his imagination ran riot over garments that made people literally stop in the street and stare.  Naturally,  the imitations flowed freely.  He worked alongside people from the cutting edge of iconoclastic British fashion;  Richard Torry ;  shoe designer John Moore and jewellery designer/stylist Judy Blame. Chris is now 31.  After three years working out of Japan,  little has changed.  His clothes still scream words like maverick individualist , mad fucker.  "My work might have got a bit gentler" he says,  laidback Birmingham accent still intact,  " but that's because I'm older and I've got a family now. " "What´s really strange about fashion in Japan is that it's really divided between age groupes.  In England I'd sell my clothes to a much wider range of people - teenagers to mid-30s.  In Japan,  when you´re 25 you become a adult and you start to wear suits." But - it's got to be said the deranged nature of your designs has got to reflect on your mental state.  You're a nutter aren't you ?  "Maybe that's right, " laughs Nemeth.  " Yes,  that's probably it. " Fashion Without Frontiers / i-D magazine january 1991 Picture : Ian Reid at the House of Beauty and Culture THE HOUSE OF BEAUTY AND CULTURE MENU