Fashion Records

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Fashion Records is a UK-based record label, publishing reggae music.

Founded in summer 1980, Fashion Records is one of the more successful UK-based reggae labels,^[1] and one of only a few British reggae labels to release records that were produced in their own recording studio.

The label was the brainchild of John MacGillivray and Chris Lane, two reggae devotees, and was essentially a spin-off from MacGillivray's Dub Vendor record store. The first Fashion release hit number 1 in the UK reggae charts in the summer of 1980 – Dee Sharp's "Let's Dub It Up". In the next few years many British reggae artists, and artists who were passing through from Jamaica, turned up on the label: Keith Douglas, Carlton Manning (of Carlton & His Shoes), Alton Ellis, Carlton Lewis and Johnnie Clarke amongst others.