Summer 2021 Timeline
Soho is always associated with men. All sorts of men. The sleazo who used to frequent the many peep shows, the moguls who own advertising agencies, the Hollywood players who direct blockbuster movies. Whatever.
The classic female image of Soho is of the prostitute or the stripper or the drag queen.
But hold on. Underneath the radar we find all sorts of powerful women connected to Soho.
Advertising and film productions companies as well as local cafes and pubs provided many of those women who challenged the stereotype.
Women such as Jan Roy, Madeleine Sanderson, Laura Gregory and Glynnis Murray who created award-winning commercials out of thin air from quality production conveyor belts; Leslie Lewis the woman who runs the legendary The French House with a velvet fist; Helen Stanley who for decades managed post production house Framestore; and businesswomen in their own right Fawn and India Rose James, grand daughters of the man who helped create the quintessential image of Soho, the legendary Paul Raymond.
For decades now there have been women in Soho helping to destroy the stereotype of the Seventies woman not only in Soho but all over the country by producing a new generation of commercials empowering women in front and behind the camera from the 80s till today.
These two female power brokers of Soho begin the series with creative Rosie Arnold and TV producer Lucinda Ker, both Soho regulars since the 1980s.
The classic female image of Soho is of the prostitute or the stripper or the drag queen.
But hold on. Underneath the radar we find all sorts of powerful women connected to Soho.
Advertising and film productions companies as well as local cafes and pubs provided many of those women who challenged the stereotype.
Women such as Jan Roy, Madeleine Sanderson, Laura Gregory and Glynnis Murray who created award-winning commercials out of thin air from quality production conveyor belts; Leslie Lewis the woman who runs the legendary The French House with a velvet fist; Helen Stanley who for decades managed post production house Framestore; and businesswomen in their own right Fawn and India Rose James, grand daughters of the man who helped create the quintessential image of Soho, the legendary Paul Raymond.
For decades now there have been women in Soho helping to destroy the stereotype of the Seventies woman not only in Soho but all over the country by producing a new generation of commercials empowering women in front and behind the camera from the 80s till today.
These two female power brokers of Soho begin the series with creative Rosie Arnold and TV producer Lucinda Ker, both Soho regulars since the 1980s.