Madonna launched her MDNA world tour this week...
CAMP: "A cornucopia of frivolity, incongruity, theatricality, and humour." "A deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love." "The lie that tells the truth." "Ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual; pertaining to or characteristic of homosexuals."
Sunday, 3 June 2012
Thursday, 31 May 2012
I hate fascinators
"I love working on haute couture, and then coming back and making a hat shaped like a Twix. Or for a horse. One thing informs the other..."
"Hats go in and out of fashion but proper hats are back... People will move away from all these fluffy feather things, which are more of an afterthought. I hate fascinators. Hats will be more demure, sophisticated, less brash."
"You don’t have to spend lots of money to make something beautiful. You can make a beautiful thing out of something that is pretty humble."
Stephen Jones (born 31st May 1957), milliner, genius.
Read about our visit to his landmark exhibition Hats - an Anthology at the V&A in 2009
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Eggs are good for you
Like my own ancestors, a French Huguenot; a refugee from the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes under Louis XIV in 1685.
Unlike my own ancestors, the brilliant craftsman of some of the most fabulous, most desired, most expensive jewellery and bejewelled objets d'art in history.
These are just some of the delights created by Peter Carl Fabergé (30th May 1846 – 24th September 1920).
[The anniversary of his birth is today celebrated by none other than Google]
Sunday, 27 May 2012
Friday, 25 May 2012
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
"I`ve never chased fame"
"I`ve never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can`t say I would turn my back on fortune. I`m someone who enjoys the benefits of money. I created a lifestyle for myself. Nobody else did it for me. Everything I have I`ve bought with my own money."
"Age, in my opinion, has no bearing at all, that is unless, of course, one happens to be a bottle of wine."
"I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude."
"I was thinking, who of the English actresses in the last 30 or 40 years have achieved as much as I have?"
Joan Henrietta Collins, OBE (born 23rd May 1933)
Monday, 21 May 2012
Dandyism
“Dandyism may be taken as the art of selection, practiced by a lover of the visible world.” — Douglas Ainslie
“A dandy does nothing. Can you imagine a dandy addressing the common herd except to make game of them?” — Charles Baudelaire
“I’ve always been backward on morals, but I do know how to dress appropriately for any given occasion, and that’s more than half the battle.” — Thorne Smith
“In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.” — Oscar Wilde
Dandyism.net
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