"Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise."
George Gershwin (26th September 1898 — 11th July 1937)
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."
Monday, 26 September 2011
Life is...
"Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise."
George Gershwin (26th September 1898 — 11th July 1937)
Friday, 23 September 2011
Gay Cowboy, man-bag or Victorian ruffian?
And so farewell then, London Fashion Week 2011 - out with a whimper, not much of a bang.
At least Men's Day was quite camp (of course!)...
TopMan Design gave us man-bags and a touch of "60s Biba":
Shaun Sampson for MAN label gave us "Joseph":
A Child of the Jago - as befits a label named after an obscure East End novel - focused on a cross between 80s "Buffalo Style" and "Victorian Ruffian":
But best of all, Jeremy Scott went for the full-on "Gay Cowboy" look!
No scandals, not much in the way of headline-grabbers. Fingers crossed for Spring!
At least Men's Day was quite camp (of course!)...
TopMan Design gave us man-bags and a touch of "60s Biba":
Shaun Sampson for MAN label gave us "Joseph":
A Child of the Jago - as befits a label named after an obscure East End novel - focused on a cross between 80s "Buffalo Style" and "Victorian Ruffian":
But best of all, Jeremy Scott went for the full-on "Gay Cowboy" look!
No scandals, not much in the way of headline-grabbers. Fingers crossed for Spring!
Thursday, 22 September 2011
A modest jewellery sale...
Monday, 19 September 2011
Queen of Fashion Week
"I'll never stop dyeing my hair - I don't want to look like a grey-haired old lady."
On costume design for opera: "I really enjoy dressing huge people who have to look like fairy princesses".
“I feel that if I don’t do something that identifies me, then I feel like a lost person. Even if the rest of the world don’t like it, that doesn’t matter. What matters is I haven’t compromised myself inside.”
"I wouldn't mind being made a Dame. Vivienne is one, after all!"
Zandra Rhodes (born 19th September 1940)
London Fashion Week
Friday, 16 September 2011
Little Bird
Annie Lennox by Satoshi Saikusa, 1991. Image © Satoshi Saikusa
Annie Lennox is celebrated as one of the finest musical voices of our time and one of the most successful female British artists in UK music history. An innovator, icon and performer, her success has spanned four decades and she is internationally renowned both for her music and her personal style.
The House of Annie Lennox is an immersive and intimate display which explores the image and creative vision of the artist. There will be a small selection of costumes and accessories worn by Lennox, together with photographs, personal treasures and awards, ephemera from the political campaigns she has championed, music videos and a specially commissioned video of Annie in conversation.
Black sequinned evening dress and tailcoat, worn by Annie Lennox in the 'Little Bird' music video, 1992. Image © V&A/La Lennoxa
Lennox was born in Scotland on Christmas Day, 1954. In 1971, at the age of 17, she left home after gaining a place at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Today, she has achieved over 80 million record sales worldwide through her work with The Tourists (1977–80), with Dave Stewart as Eurythmics (1980–90), and subsequently as a solo artist. She is now as well known for her political campaigns as for her music. Winner of numerous musical awards, in 2011 she was awarded an OBE by the Queen for her services to charity.
This display pays tribute to Lennox's passion for life and creativity. Through her artistic output in many fields, she has influenced and transformed the position of a generation of female performers.
Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
The House of Annie Lennox is on at the V&A from 15 September 2011 to 26 February 2012.
Annie Lennox official website
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Promise in the stars
"We can't all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by."
"You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. I have reached a nirvana of negativity. I can look futility in the face and still see promise in the stars."
"Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow."
Sebastian Horsley (8 August 1962 – 17 June 2010)
Sunday, 11 September 2011
"Reality is a dirty word for me"
Over at Give 'em the old Razzle Dazzle, it's all about the Last Night of the Proms.
Ken Russell's take on the classics, however, is a little more extreme...
"Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about."
Ken Russell
Savage Messiah - a Ken Russell site
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