British pop culture

The Jam pose in Carnaby Street in the 70s wearing their Union Jack Jackets inspired by The Who in the 60s.

Rave magazine, 1960s.

Indie Sleaze is a tongue-in-cheek aesthetic that was prevalent from roughly 2006 to 2014. It is a style originating from the mid-late 2000s party scene that grew in popularity on sites like Tumblr and MySpace. Trappings of this aesthetic include high-flash photography, electro-rock dance halls, imprecise eyeliner, old American Apparel ads, mussed up hair and side-swept bangs. Indie Sleaze has many influences from a variety of time periods and mediums: Brooklyn Hipster fashion, '70s/’80s…

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Yes, the Geri Union Jack dress is now as old as a grown adult.

Sotheby’s Made In Britain / Online sale features works by some of the UK’s most celebrated artists of recent years but as well as pushing boundaries, their subjects have included true icons of British pop culture from Mick Jagger to Amy Winehouse to Francis Bacon. Click through to see the photographic highlights of this vibrant sale catalogue, chosen by Irene Gonzalez.

It takes chutzpah to gainsay Richard Hoggart, especially on class and pop culture. But when he wrote in The Uses of Literacy (1957) that “the finest period in English . . . popular song seems to have