Pamela Rooke, the style icon and legendary figure in the British punk scene better known as Jordan, died yesterday at the age of 66.
Pamela Rooke, the style icon and legendary figure in the British punk scene better known as Jordan, died yesterday at the age of 66, her partnerearlier today. “She died peacefully a stone’s throw away from the sea in her hometown of Seaford, East Sussex in the company of her loving family at 9 p.m. last night,” he wrote, adding that her passing followed a short period of illness due to a rare form of bile duct cancer.
Born in Seaford in 1955, Rooke began her journey to the heady heights of the 1970s punk movement in London when she changed her name to Jordan as a rebellious 14-year-old—inspired by the “powerful androgyny” of Jordan Baker in—soon after which she was suspended from school for her eye-popping outfits.
on Julia Fox, and would often paint geometrical lines across her face as if marked up by Picasso—Rooke instantly caught the attention of those within London’s nascent punk scene.Commuting to the city from East Sussex every day, Rooke made her first major entrée to the world of fashion after she walked into
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