ABSTRACT
Interiors magazine was founded in 1981 by Kevin Kelly and Min Hogg, and became World of Interiors in 1983. Other interior-inclined magazines of varying degrees of sophistication and gloss followed, of which the most notable was Elle Decoration, launched in 1990. New Romantics were a fashion cult for those desperate to move on from the tattiness of punk. They had a small nucleus, principally of astute and ambitious working-class youths from inner-city council estates, reinforced by students from St Martins School of Art and a few from London University and the London School of Economics. On 27 October 1986 came the so-called Big Bang: the deregulation of the financial markets. London, already a major international financial hub, was transformed and became if not the leading hub then, alongside New York, one of the top two.
