Fashion - Fabrique de Luxe - Face 02

Fashion were a British new wave band, primarily active from 1978-1984, with a brief revival in 2009. They began as a post-punk band, before developing into a new wave/synthpop ensemble that placed three singles on the lower reaches of the UK charts in 1982-84. The band started in '79 as a punk band and went through various changes until 1981 when they reformed again with members being John Mulligan, Dave (De) Harris, Dik Davis and Martin Recchi. This period was a complete change of direction musically and led to Fashion's second album known as Fabrique.

The band signed an international recording contract with Arista Records in 1982 and decided on Zeus B. Held to be their producer, a well-known Krautrock musician & underground dance producer famed at the time for his work with Gina X. The album became a European product being written and recorded in Koln, Paris and London over a six-month period. On release it went straight in at No. 10 in the British charts, by this time Fashion had started touring the album in Europe and gigs in the USA. On return to the UK Dave Harris left the band and Fabrique became a collector's item.

The album included the UK hit singles Streetplayer (Mechanik), which reached No. 46 in April 1982 and Love Shadow, which peaked at No. 51 in August of the same year. The track Whitestuff was featured in the television show Miami Vice's two-hour season 2 opener. Prodigal Son and You Only Left Your Picture were featured in another episode.

The album was re-released with additional material in 2004 as The Height Of Fashion. So, the boxset release Fabrique Deluxe was a one off, every single track and version that was recorded for the Fabrique album has been digitized and split over 3 CDs - this being disc 2 from the boxset release from 2019 featuring the extended mixes form 12 Dance singles.