People

Step into the lives and worlds of our ever-growing selection of cultural icons who were prominently influential in the 1960s. We know there are many more still to cover, so feel welcome to nominate your favourites for future addition to this section of the website!

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Yves Saint-Laurent

French Fashion Designer

Portrait of Patti Smith (1978)

UCLA Library Special Collections, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Patti Smith

Singer, Actress, Visual Artist & Photographer

Picture of John Michell smoking (2008)

Richard Adams, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

John Michell

New Age influencer & Writer

Diane von Fürstenberg at the Vanity Fair party for the "2012 Tribeca Film Festival" (2012)

David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Diane von Fürstenberg

Fashion Designer & Entrepreneur

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Michael X

Civil Rights Campaigner, Black Empowerment Promoter

Marianne Faithfull singing at the Dutch TV programme "Fanclub" (1966)

Photographer: A. Vente, CC BY-SA 3.0 NL, via Wikimedia Commons (Cropped)

Marianne Faithfull

Singer & Songwriter

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Christopher Gibbs

Antiques Dealer & Collector

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David Litvinoff

British Film Industry Consultant

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Donald Cammell

Painter, Screenwriter & Film Director

James Haynes (middle) on the TV discussion programme "After Dark" in 1988, with Andrea Dworkin (left) and host Anthony Clare (right)

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Jim Haynes

Publisher

John Paul Getty Jr. inside a car with (1966)

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John Paul Getty Jr

Philanthropist & Book Collector

Kenneth Jay Lane in his apartment in New York City in 2003

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Kenny Jay Lane

American Jewellery Designer

Mick Jagger portrait holding a cigarette (1965)

Olavi Kaskisuo / Lehtikuva, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Mick Jagger

Singer & Founder Member of The Rolling Stones

Portrait of Bruce Chatwin in a rural background (date unknown)

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Bruce Chatwin

English Travel Writer, Novelist & Journalist

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Nigel Waymouth

Designer & Artist

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Robert Mapplethorpe

Photographer

John Lennon (left) and Yoko Ono (right) at a New York press conference where they would announce the conceptual country of Nutopia (1973)

Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (Cropped)

Yoko Ono

Artist & Peace Activist

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Victoria Brooke

Model