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Would you have been let in to an '80s club? 

Unless you made your own outfits, were into the deviant or 'Glam Fetish', you might not have stood a chance

18 January 2014

9:00 AM

18 January 2014

9:00 AM

People will go to extraordinary lengths to get into a nightclub. Nowadays you must wear something tight, and look slinky. But, as Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s at the V&A shows (until 16 February), a handful of Eighties doormen were into something a bit more deviant.

The combination of a new London Fashion Week, a vibrant club scene and a coterie of ambitious designers emerging from the London art schools was potent.

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