Pamela Rooke, punk rock fashion icon known as Jordan, dies aged 66
Pamela Rooke, who became the icon of the British punk rock scene by the name of Jordan, has died at the age of 66.
Her partner Nick wrote on Brighton and Hove News: "She died peacefully in the company of her lovely family in her home town of Seaford,
East Sussex last night (Sunday 3 April) at 9 p.m. a stone's throw away from the sea. Gone... After a short period of illness
she died of a relatively rare type of cancer, known as cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer).
Jordan was a wonderful woman and had been blessed with countless others to come. Will be remembered for decades."
With his highly imaginative makeup and clothing, Rook was a linchpin of the London scene that produced the Sex Pistols,
Vivienne Westwood and more; Her daring fashion sense helped reconcile punk's aesthetic to leather, rubber
cropped dresses, partial nudity, and other provocative styles.
Rook got a job at a sex shop in Westwood in his teens. “I was running a gauntlet every day. People were afraid of me,” she later said of her daring outfit.