PAUL D’ORLÉANS
“Ladies’ skirts grew so short they almost needn’t have bothered, while every form of media was suddenly awash in procreational hormones.”
a five-year guest of the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles (guest curator that is), my job is to pull rabbits out of hats annually for their motorcycle exhibitions. This year, we travel back in time to Italy, exploring ‘motorcycles of the sexual revolution’ (the unofficial subtitle), an era coinciding with the adolescence of baby boomers in the 1960s, and surging through the 1970s. It was the
