I felt the styling at last weeks Yves Saint Laurent menswear show strongly referenced Joy Division's Ian Curtis...
Yves Saint Laurent Fall 2010
I felt the styling at last weeks Yves Saint Laurent menswear show strongly referenced Joy Division's Ian Curtis...
WilliamVintage...
You lucky Londonistas...
The second ever WilliamVintage sale takes place next Tuesday and Wednesday at The Sloane Square Hotel. William Banks-Blaney has collated an astonishing collection of mint condition vintage dresses, coats and sparates, which I somehow feel compelled to coin 'mintage'.
I asked Will for a heads-up on what to expect...
"Everything from Wakely evening dresses to pieces by Dior, Givenchy, Lanvin, Ossie Clark, Pucci, Valentino, and many more designers. Oh, and about a hundred carefully selected 1960s coats, all in pristine condition!".
This is all starting to sound like a dream trolley dash around the V&A!...
£250 gets an original Studio 54 period Stephen Burrows a-line full length dress.
£300ish gets a cashmere and mink 60s Jackie O style swing coat.
£400-600 gets Ossie Clark beauties.
£1200 gets original 63 couture Marc Bohan for Christian Dior!
Damn I wish I could go. Can actually feel a little tantrum welling, I'm not very practiced at them but bet I could throw a spectacular one in a 'cashmere 60s Jackie O swing coat' with matching gloved fists pounding the table! Grrr...
Tuesday 2nd February 12 noon - 8.30pm
Wednesday 3rd February 10am - 8.30pm
The Private Room at The Sloane Square Hotel London, SW1
Cash & cheque only and skilled seamstresses will be on hand for tailoring requirements.
Transient Twilight
I thought I'd perfectly timed this dog walk to enjoy the last of the daylight and had just snapped these pics, when Archie developed an interest in a passing dog. It belonged to a chatty young blind man. By the time we'd covered the gamut of amiable dog owner stuff and were on the subject of camping holidays, it dawned on me that I was still in the heart of the park and the light was fading fast.
Was about to say, "Lovely to meet you but I should be getting on because it's turning dark now" when this suddenly felt like a tactless thing to say to someone who's blind, so, instead I said,"Lovely to meet you but I should be getting on, or I'll be late".
And how did he reply? "Was nice to talk to you, I'll SEE you later"...
Must stop being so politically correct!
I know my pictures make it look like I've been 'night walking' but it honestly wasn't quite that dark.
Glasgow Film Festival Preview @ GFT
Director Thomas Ikimi, whose latest feature film 'Legacy' has been shot and produced in Glasgow with Black Camel Pictures. Glasgow Film Festival's closing gala will host the world premiere of Legacy.
Thomas confessed that he raised an eyebrow when Glasgow was suggested as the location for his New York set 'taut psychological thriller'. Filming went so well, he's now heartily recommending the city to his peers.
Jason Edwards, programmer at The Arches Glasgow.
Rosie from The Magic Lantern, looking marvelously like Emma Peel...
It's Robert Burns Night...
Wallpaper and textile design studio Timorous Beasties designed the 'Glasgow Toile' fabric. Look closely and you'll notice it depicts drug and alcohol users within a backdrop of the city's better known buildings and public spaces.The Common Guild
Have to admit, it's slightly intimidating ringing the doorbell of this place.
But hey, life's too short to be shy...
A friendly girl answers the door, "Hi, please come in - are you a neighbour?
"Well, just down the hill", I offer.
"Oh great, Kitty's in the library, just go straight through and have a glass of wine." (Result!).
Turns out the gallery have invited their neighbours in the street for drinks and a tour tonight.
Winning the Turner prize clearly has advantages, Douglas Gordon's Glasgow home is a generous Victorian town house on Park Circus. However all he keeps to himself is the top floor, the rest is turned over to The Common Guild, an exhibition space which hosts local and international artists.
'Chaplet' (2007). Up to the first floor and what looks like barbed wire is revealed to be a sequence of fingerprints on the mirror. The literature suggests that it references the invisible barriers within contemporary society which risk destroying the possibility of individual freedom...
'Diamond Corn' (2005)
'Ciel Variable' (Changing Skies) is written on the ceiling with a burning candle.
Today and Tomorrow (Saturday 23rd) from 12-5pm are the last days of this current exhibition.
This room on the ground floor is primarily an art resource library, and weirdly, each book Douglas ever buys for himself also gets a place here. Way above all the weightier stuff I spied some Iain Rankin, Practical Homeopathy and a Rough Guide to Paris!
The contents might look nothing out of the ordinary but one private collector thinks enough of this library to maintain a continually updated replica of the entire collection.
What's incredible is that the library, like the gallery, is for the people and anyone can come and make use of it. There's also a fine collection of art periodicals which can be hard to track down and pricey when you do.
Fortune favours the bold...
Comanechi, Holy Mountain & DIVORCE? Monday night was hard...
I blame that AC/DC album that's been kicking about all weekend because 'rocking out' on a school night really appealed last night. Besides, Midweek-enders are much more fun.
Holy Mountain who performed in the middle of the crowd even had the 'hipsters' headbanging. Imagine Hendrix joined Black Sabbath ...actually don't bother...still wouldn't sound anything like this!
Glasgow's DIVORCE, yes I know she looks like butter wouldn't melt but they got some serious mosh pit action going in this small venue.
Comanechi. Akiko put on special boots to play the drums, quickly broke one of the drums, surfed into the crowd, performed a spectacularly thrashy set and gave us some great chat. 
She finished up with "My Pussy"...
Soon after, someone crashed onto the stage 'taking out' this piece of kit in the process. Grey cowboy boots? Nice.
For once I made the right choice of footwear myself, my slightly too big WW2 combat boots got a rare outing.
Comanechi could have been a bit louder though...only joking, my ears are still sizzling with white noise.
I do try not to swear too much but...
"Fuck yeah..!"
The Lady's Just Gaga for 'House of Blue Eyes'
Lady Gaga sporting a PVC cape from House of Blue Eyes on her new album cover. Well done Johnny and the House of Blue Eyes collective.Want a piece of the action yourself? For two weeks, Johnny Blueeyes will be showcasing and selling selected items from the 'unique archive of his life' as a music industry stylist and designer. And it's all happening in one of my favorite London boutiques, Digitaria, now known as MACHINE-A after an adroit name change at the end of last year. Drop by the shop between 4pm-5pm daily to see what Johnny's up to in the window...maybe he'll just be taking tea!
Where There's Muck There's Glass
Although I've been widely known to mortify friends with my 'dumpster diving' antics, I really did think twice about rescuing these old milk bottles.
They were cuddling each other in a pile of farm junk awaiting collection in South Wales.
What the hell, let's call it extreme recycling.
Soaked them in a bucket of soapy water and shook out the debris, a green nylon scouring pad jiggled around inside did the rest.
The embossed text reads 'Conway's Dairy, Merthyr'.
A spot of googling unearthed this image of Conway's Dairy.
Fresh as a daisy and as good as old!
If you don't fancy getting your hands dirty, Bailey's Home and Garden will sell you one of these American milk bottles for £12. A great shop but remember that in Bailey's, a bucket with a rusty hole in it may cost more than a new one!
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