R
ecently, Patrick Cox was driving down a dirt road near his home in Santa Gertrudis on the Balearic island of Ibiza. “I was behind this cyclist and I could just about make out it said ‘Doors of Perception’ in very small letters on the back of his cap. I kept thinking, ‘Is that mine? I think that’s one of mine.’ ”
Is this the same Patrick Cox who thrived in 1980s London when he arrived in the UK to study at the design school Cordwainers? A man who sold a million loafers a year at his peak? Who made shoes for Vivienne Westwood and John Galliano, and who was partying with the frilly-shirted heart of new romantic London at Camden Palace and with Leigh Bowery
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