Barry Kamen, (brother of 80's singer and fellow model Nick Kamen) the former model and stylist at the forefront of the Eighties Buffalo scene died at the young age of 52.
Alongside late stylist Ray Petri, and photographers Mark Lebon, Jamie Morgan, Roger Charity and Cameron McVey, Barry and his Levi’s model brother Nick helped define the look of the pioneering youth culture movement that changed the face of fashion.
Barry and Nick became muses for Petri after meeting him in a clothes shop and the pair’s mixed heritage (Burmese, Dutch, Irish and English) – and unquestionable beauty – made them the poster boys for a generation tired of commercial fashion. “He [Petri] took these kids off the street and put them in front of the camera for the first time,” Kamen said of how he found fame. “A mixed-race boy is now the normal, quintessential, good-looking boy, but at the time it was shocking.”
Alongside late stylist Ray Petri, and photographers Mark Lebon, Jamie Morgan, Roger Charity and Cameron McVey, Barry and his Levi’s model brother Nick helped define the look of the pioneering youth culture movement that changed the face of fashion.
Barry and Nick became muses for Petri after meeting him in a clothes shop and the pair’s mixed heritage (Burmese, Dutch, Irish and English) – and unquestionable beauty – made them the poster boys for a generation tired of commercial fashion. “He [Petri] took these kids off the street and put them in front of the camera for the first time,” Kamen said of how he found fame. “A mixed-race boy is now the normal, quintessential, good-looking boy, but at the time it was shocking.”
Barry Kamen, (brother of 80's singer and fellow model Nick Kamen) the former model and stylist at the forefront of the Eighties Buffalo scene died at the young age of 52.
Alongside late stylist Ray Petri, and photographers Mark Lebon, Jamie Morgan, Roger Charity and Cameron McVey, Barry and his Levi’s model brother Nick helped define the look of the pioneering youth culture movement that changed the face of fashion.
Barry and Nick became muses for Petri after meeting him in a clothes shop and the pair’s mixed heritage (Burmese, Dutch, Irish and English) – and unquestionable beauty – made them the poster boys for a generation tired of commercial fashion. “He [Petri] took these kids off the street and put them in front of the camera for the first time,” Kamen said of how he found fame. “A mixed-race boy is now the normal, quintessential, good-looking boy, but at the time it was shocking.”
Alongside late stylist Ray Petri, and photographers Mark Lebon, Jamie Morgan, Roger Charity and Cameron McVey, Barry and his Levi’s model brother Nick helped define the look of the pioneering youth culture movement that changed the face of fashion.
Barry and Nick became muses for Petri after meeting him in a clothes shop and the pair’s mixed heritage (Burmese, Dutch, Irish and English) – and unquestionable beauty – made them the poster boys for a generation tired of commercial fashion. “He [Petri] took these kids off the street and put them in front of the camera for the first time,” Kamen said of how he found fame. “A mixed-race boy is now the normal, quintessential, good-looking boy, but at the time it was shocking.”
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