Her style and dress sense—a bleached platinum-blonde bouffant hairdo with dark raccoon-like eye make-up—made her a highly visible icon of the London punk subculture.

[3] When Jordan first walked into 430 King's Road, London,[4] wearing gold stilettos, a see-through net skirt, with a white bouffant hairstyle,[5] it had just changed to Sex,[3] but there wasn't a position at the time so I got a job in Harrods, on the third floor in a place called Way In.

Somebody tried to throw me off the train one day, literally out the door, so British Rail told me to go sit in first class, get out of trouble.

[10] She can also be seen in Julien Temple's The Great Rock and Roll Swindle wearing an "Only anarchists are pretty" T-shirt and appearing on stage with the Sex Pistols during their first live television performance of "Anarchy in the U.K." in August 1976.

Rooke's autobiography, Defying Gravity: Jordan's Story, written with Cathi Unsworth, was published by Omnibus Press in 2019.