Carnaby Street

This guide to Carnaby Street in London begins with a fire in 1956, when a young Scotsman named John Stephen lost his small Soho menswear shop and relocated to a shabby backstreet of sweatshops and locksmiths. It follows what he did with the cramped unit at number five, a canary-yellow shopfront, pop music, coloured jeans, and how it began pulling in London's young men, who had never before had clothes made just for them. A green plaque at number one marks where he started.