Author seeks photographs of legendary fashion designer Ossie Clark

AN author is seeking photographs of legendary fashion designer Ossie Clark to help illustrate a new book being published in the new year.

Ossie Clark: The Highs and Lows of a Legendary Fashion Designer, has been written by Tommy Kennedy, who attended Beamont Technical College – the same school as Ossie Clark.

Tommy said: “I have spent many years thinking about the story and began researching a couple of years ago. It would be great to get any photos of Ossie that the readers in Warrington may have to help illustrate it.

Tommy, originally from Warrington, is now based in London’s Notting Hill. After turning his life around, he joined the music business managing bands, including Warrington’s Slydigs, taken over by the management of the “Who.” This is his 9th book. He won a scholarship to study at the prestigious Birkbeck University of London as a mature student and is currently taking a degree in Creative writing.

Ossie Clark came from a modest, diligent working-class family, an ordinary boy who went on to do extraordinary things. He was born in Liverpool and raised in Warrington.
Tommy never knew Ossie, but they attended the same technical school, Beamont. Seventeen years apart, both made their way to the enclave of Notting Hill in West London. Ossie found fame and fortune as the go-to fashion designer to the stars in the swinging 60s and psychedelic 70s. Once dubbed the King of the Kings Road, this is one of the most extraordinary stories of a man who had it all. It’s a classic tale of a rise from anonymity to the pinnacle of the fashion world, with the ultimate betrayal, told from the perspective of a fellow Northerner.
The author has dramatized Ossie’s life with facts and informed imagination.
The Book will release on the 15th of March, 2023. The publisher is www.newhavenpublishingltd.com.

Anyone with pictures of Ossie from his days in Warrington can email them to Tommy at [email protected]