John Stephen
8/28/1934 – 2/1/2004Glasgow, Scotland, UK
John Stephen, dubbed by the media "The £1m Mod" and "The King Of Carnaby Street," was one of the most important fashion figures of the 1960s. By 1967, John Stephen operated a chain of 15 shops on the thoroughfare in central London which he and boyfriend Bill Franks made the epicentre of Swinging London: Carnaby Street.
