Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren was a British musician, impresario, visual artist, performer, clothes designer and boutique owner, notable for combining these activities in an inventive and provocative way.
McLaren was born onJanuary 1946 to Peter McLaren, a Scottish engineer, and Emily Isaacs, in postWorld War II North London. His father left when he was two and he and his brother Stuart were raised by his maternal grandmother, Rose Corre Isaacs, the formerly wealthy daughter of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish diamond dealers, in Stoke Newington. McLaren told Andrew Denton on Enough Rope that his grandmother always said to him, To be bad is good... to be good is simply boring. In The Ghosts of Oxford Street he says Charles Clore became his mothers lover. When he was six, McLarens mother married Martin Levi, a rag trade entrepreneur together they operated womenswear business Eve Edwards with a factory in Londons East End.
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