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Features Try on, tune in, drop out: the story of Granny Takes A Trip and London's psychedelic tailors Starring Kenney Jones, Marianne Faithfull, Joe Boyd, Nigel Weymouth and more By Tom.

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The clothing boutique Granny Takes A Trip opened in London's King's Road in 1966. With Savile Row trained tailor John Pearse, they created unique designs and styles influenced by fashion of the past. Clients included Pink Floyd, The Small Faces, The Byrds, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. The vendor owned boutiques.

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A boutique called Granny Takes a Trip had opened its doors in December 1965 at 488 King's Road - an area known as World's End. The entrepreneurs behind the boutique were graphic designer Nigel Weymouth and his girlfriend Sheila Cohen - part time actress and fanatical collector of vintage clothing.

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Granny Takes a Trip was a boutique opened in February 1966 at 488 Kings Road, Chelsea, London, by Nigel Waymouth, his girlfriend Sheila Cohen and John Pearse. [1] The shop, which was acquired by Freddie Hornik in 1969, remained open until the mid-1970s and has been called the "first psychedelic boutique in Groovy London of the 1960s". [2]

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Film archive to tell the stories behind swinging London boutique Granny Takes a Trip

Granny Takes a Trip At the end of 1965, the previous owners of a little vintage clothing stall opened a shop called Granny Takes A Trip in King's Road, London. It was run by Victorian clothing collector Sheila Cohen, her boyfriend, the painter Nigel Waymouth and his friend, the mod tailor John Pearse.

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Granny Takes A Trip was the King's Road, London, boutique which opened in 1966 and had branches in Manhattan and Hollywood under the stewardship of the late Freddie Hornik. Hornik featured in the Telegraph magazine in 1969 and GTAT paperwork dating from 1972.

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Granny Takes a Trip was the London mecca of hippy chic. The pustinchas were bought by men and women as Granny Takes a Trip was one of the first boutiques not to differentiate male from female dress.

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Granny Takes A Trip. 60s boutique Granny Takes a Trip was a brand of renegade tailoring that did exactly what it said on the tin. Taking the gaudy upholstery, lace and brightly patterned wall.

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Try on, tune in, drop out: the story of Granny Takes A Trip and London's psychedelic tailors. Starring Kenney Jones, Marianne Faithfull, Joe Boyd, Nigel Weymouth and more. By Tom Pinnock.

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GRANNY TAKES A TRIP The clothing boutique Granny Takes A Trip opened in London's King's Road in 1966. With Savile Row trained tailor John Pearse, they created unique designs and styles influenced by fashion of the past. Clients included Pink Floyd, The Small Faces, The Byrds, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. Lots 140.

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Starring Kenney Jones, Marianne Faithfull, Joe Boyd, Nigel Weymouth and more By Tom Pinnock How a gang of psychedelic tailors and shopkeepers changed the look and the culture of 1960s London. Tom.

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Granny Takes a Trip was London's first psychedelic boutique, opening before psychedelia even became a thing.

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Just down the street from Hung On You's new location, at 488 King's Road, was it a chief competitor of the 1960s, Granny Takes A Trip. It was owned by the trio Nigel Waymouth, Sheila Cohen, and John Pearse. The swank boutique opened in 1966 and closed in the mid-1970s. The name of the boutique was giving away its policy - 'Granny.

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Granny Takes a Trip opened in 1965, owned and run by John Pearse, Nigel Waymouth, and his girlfriend Sheila Cohen. Initially the shop was intended as a way to offload some of Sheila Cohen's collection of antique clothing, but John Pearse also provided tailoring services (he had trained on Savile Row).

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From the Kinolibrary Archive Film collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visit http://www.kinolibrary.com. Clip ref. AB243.Lon.