Nick Kamen , the 59-year-old English model and musician, has died after a long battle with bone marrow cancer.
Blue-eyed and pillowy lipped, with a beauty mark on one cheek, Kamen bore a resemblance to a young Elvis Presley. This was played up in the retro feeling of a steamy 1985 commercial he did for Levi’s 501 stonewashed denim. In it, the young model walks into a laundromat and fills a washing machine with rocks before quickly removing his T-shirt and belt and then oh so slowly unbuttoning his jeans, balling them up, and throwing them in the washer.
The Levi’s job brought Kamen to the attention of a larger audience, including Madonna, who was then entering her Marilyn Monroe phase. “Each Time You Break My Heart,” the hit single off of Kamen’s first album, was written by the pop star and originally intended forWith Stephen Bray, Madonna produced the song for Kamen and also provided the backup vocals.
, “R.I.P. to the most beautiful and sweetest man Nick Kamen!” Like the Culture Club singer, Kamen bridged the worlds of music and fashion.“Kamen was our muse,” said Jamie Morgan, the photographer who worked with stylist Ray Petri to create the Buffalo look, in a recent . The style, focused on individuality and achieved with a magpie DIY approach to putting together a look, was introduced to the world through independent British magazines likeBuffalo style was in part a reaction to the industry’s focus on the gloss of perfection, and though niche, it had an outsize and lasting influence, laying the groundwork for the explosion of creativity and rebellion in 1990s fashion.
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