As an offshoot of Acme Attractions, Boy was opened on Kings Road in 1977 by Steph Raynor and John Krivine. The shop was a vehicle for the designs of Peter Christopherson- whos initial concept was that the shop resembled a burnt-out premises in which a boy had died. The shop in it's early days was a magnet for youth related violence, with the windows being regularly smashed by fighting teds and punks, prompting Don Letts, manager at the time to leave and manage the Slits instead. Raynor and Boy later changed direction to become an icon of eighties London, Christophersen moved on and founded the industrial group 'Throbbing Gristle' amongst other things, but his early design work resonates as some of the most striking, dark, and extreme of the Punk Period. Christophson himself modelled in the photograph used for the poster.
