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Paul Smith

LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 20: Fashion Designer, Paul Smith in the Sentebale 'Forget-Me-Not' Garden at the Chelsea Flowert Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea on May 20, 2013 in London, England. The B&Q Sentebale 'Forget Me Not' Garden was designed by renowned garden designer Jinny Blom and includes native Lesotho flowers and a contemporary pavilion based on a Traditional Basotho roundhouse. The garden was built to raise awareness of the work of Prince Harry's charity Sentebale and the plight of the children of this small African Kingdom.

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About Paul Smith

Paul Smith is probably best known as the founder and manager of Blast First, the British alternative record label that released artists such as Sonic Youth, the Butthole Surfers, Big Black and Dinosaur Jr. in the UK. He continued to manage the artists and work in the music industry when Blast First was bought by Mute Records. Now he runs the very small label "Blast First Petite" on which he develops and sometime releases stuff that was refused by Mute's Blast First, including Rivulets and HTRK. He now has an exclusive contract with Pan Sonic. He is also known in subcultural circles as the man behind King Mob/Disobey, and the occasional Club Disobey underground art events in London. In 2002 he produced a multimedia performance event at the Barbican to mark the release of Iain Sinclair's book London Orbital. The event featured a diverse range of artists from the literary and music worlds including J.G. Ballard and Bill Drummond.

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