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Even for an outfit as art-conscious as Mambo, the clothing company’s relationship with Reg Mombassa, probably its most significant collaborator, is unusual. In the sixteen years that he has worked for Dare Jennings, Mambo has been the primary outlet for Mombassa’s warped, sometimes puerile, but fundamentally humanist vision.

‘Dare is like one those medieval patrons of the arts,’ says Mombassa. ‘In a more modest, less brutal way.’

Nor is vision too strong a word. Using Mambo as his conduit, Mombassa has succeeded, like any serious artist, in creating his own instantly familiar, internally consistent world.

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While the imagery is contemporary – suburban bungalows, football matches, factory chimneys and big-gutted blokes guzzling from cans of beer – the sensibility is a cross between Dadaist scandal-mongering and the grotesquerie of northern European painters such as Brueghel and Bosch. ‘I’m a man and I’m crazed with lust most of the time, like most men are,’ he confesses.

‘When you get