The Sussex Lancers: Tailor-made Leather Lovers
The Sussex Lancers: Tailor-made Leather Lovers
31 January to 12 April 2026
PRINTS & DRAWINGS GALLERY, BRIGHTON MUSEUM
Free with Brighton Museum admission, members free
This display traces a story beginning in the early 1960s, when two tailors opened Filk’n Casuals on Bond Street, producing bold and unconventional menswear. It follows this spirit of defiance into the Sussex Lancers Motor Sports Club, active from 1980 to 2001 across Brighton’s nightlife and the Sussex countryside. Through leather, fetish gear, clubs, motorbikes and the open road, the Lancers formed a community which navigated prejudice, HIV, and AIDs. New photographs by Antony Edwards present a contemporary view of the Sussex leather scene and its lasting cultural legacy.
Curated by Alf Le Flohic.
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