Philip Sallon (born 1951[1]) is a British club promoter,[2] event organiser, socialite, style innovator,[3] impresario,[4] and clothing designer.
In 1975, he applied and was offered a place at Saint Martin's School of Art to study fashion, but was expelled after one year for poor attendance.
[21] Sallon was a core member of the group[22] that included the founders Rusty Egan and Steve Strange, and also included Boy George, Marilyn and Alice Temple, Perri Lister, Princess Julia, and Martin Degville (later to be the frontman of Tony James' Sigue Sigue Sputnik).
[23] Known fashion students who attended the club included Stephen Jones, David Holah, Stevie Stewart, John Galliano, and Darla Jane Gilroy.
[29] Here, The Face magazine named the Mud as one of London's four coolest weekend club-nights,[30] before it subsequently moved on to Fooberts, and in 1984 to Busbys, next to the Astoria Charing Cross Road, where it ran until 1991.
Phillip Salon's Mud Club dominated Bagleys on Saturday nights, known for flamboyant clientele, staging productions of a large scale, designed by Gary Messider, and included such strange design elements such as washing-lines full of clothes above the dance-floor with housewife characters vacuuming on podiums.
[33] Phillip Sallon is portrayed[34] in Taboo the Musical, (2002), in which his character is the narrator; the show is based partly on the New Romantic scene of the 1980s.