Pam Hogg obituary

Fashion designer and ‘100% party girl’ who was part of the 1980s London club scene and designed for Rihanna, Björk and Kylie MinoguePam Hogg, the fashion designer who brought a club kid look to the catwalk in the 1980s, has died.Hogg was born in Paisley, near Glasgow, and began making her clothes at the age of six. First studying painting and printed textiles at the Glasgow School of Art, she moved to London to study at the Royal College of Art. It was here, as part of the club scene, that she began designing proper: initially making notice-me outfits to guarantee her entry into Steve Strange’s Blitz club, and then moving to the catwalk in 1981. By 1989, i-D magazine called her “the most consistently inventive British fashion designer (alongside Vivienne Westwood)”. Hogg, it wrote, “has been described as ‘100% party girl’ and has designed the clothes to match”. Other party