Ben - A Single Minded Man

When I first met Ben, nearly a year ago, he told me quite clearly that fashion PR was what he really wanted to do. Well I bumped into him yesterday lunchtime and have some very exciting news... he's moving to London next month to take up a prestigious internship with TOM FORD PR!!! 

One of Ben's style icons is Montgomery Clift and personally I think they have more than a little in common.

So pleased for you Ben. x

Katie @ WilliamVintage

Katie assisted Will Banks-Blaney at the WilliamVintage Glasgow sale. Her yellow Ossie Clark dress stopped me dead in my tracks, it honestly was the most exciting thing I've seen in ages and I thought she looked absolutely luminous in it. 

Reminded me a little of Goldie Hawn, also dressed by Ossie, in the 1970 film 'There's a Girl in My Soup'.

The Model Tenement

I am now a woman of substantial property.

Attaching the gable ends to the front and rear elevation was a bit hairy but 'topping out' went like a dream, so I celebrated with a gin and tonic.

A misspent youth experimenting with glue and messing about with Stanley knives once led me to create my own theatre from an empty After Eight box. It was frustratingly small but my cast of banqueting Medieval 'Busy Bodies' seemed impressed enough with its interchangeable backdrops.

Incredibly, it turns out there's actually a career in all this sticky back plastic malarkey, wish I'd known.  "Architectural Model Makers" they call them these days and rather nice they were too. When I bought their 'Scottish Tenement' kit at the Hidden Lane Festival, I asked Franki Finch and Beth Fouracre if there were any tricks of the trade to adhere to... "Not too much glue".

Think I might also have made a half decent estate agent because my picture makes it look a wee bit bigger than its mere handspan height.

Now then, if only my new tenement block had floors. I could decorate one flat in the style of each decade from 1910 till the 80s, how exciting, thinking about all this is probably going to keep me awake in bed tonight.

Quite fancy a townhouse next...

You too can join this racket, for the modest sum of nineteen new pounds. (Slum landlords need not apply.)

Architectural model makers Finch and Fouracre.

Time Out's 'Performer of The Year' Scottee - hits The Fringe!

I'd always assumed that wearing too much make-up and working "in fashion" precluded me from ever being a feminist. So imagine my surprise, when late one boozy evening whilst trying to drink my friend Neil under the table, he suddenly announced, "Like it or not Marina, your beliefs do appear to be unequivocally feminist." Nearly fell off my chair.

Performance artist Scottee and friends are hitting the Edinburgh Fringe in August with his production Eat Your Heart Out. I bought tickets immediately. An intelligent thought provoking cabaret performance incorporating superb costumes and too much make-up sounds like the perfect opportunity to explore my new found feminism.

I actually met Scottee last September at MACHINE-A and he was incredibly sweet, although had I read his "press" beforehand, I'd have been absolutely terrified!

"This performance artist is revolting, omnipresent & so-hot-right-now experimental." - Bizarre Magazine.

"London's most experimental rising talent" - Time Out.
"Watch out, Scottee's taking over" - Dazed & Confused. 
"A theatrical equivalent to having sand kicked in your eye" - Pigeons & Peacocks.
"Subversively dark" - Run Riot.
"Phenomenal'' - Time Out


Not only is he the Time Out 'Performer Of The Year', but he's got some fascinating reservations about burlesque which I was curious to ask him about.

Style Scanner: I'm personally rather intrigued by your 'feminist' views on burlesque...


Scottee: I grew up surrounded by feminists and something just doesn't sit right with me, when we think 100 years ago women were throwing themselves under horses for the right to equality and now 'feminism' takes the shape of 'getting your tits out'.


Style Scanner: So how did you come to be surrounded by feminists growing up?


Scotee: When I was 14 I ran away with the circus, well the theatre really - I was encouraged by Spare Tyre Theatre Company - who set themselves up in the 70s at a weight watchers class and identified they were not the problem, society was. So it was bound to rub off! 

I have nothing against women who decide to take their clothes of for a living - but attempting to make it artistic, empowering and political is wrong - should we really be encouraging this as the du jour of cabaret in 2010? I think the same way about men moving their mouths to other peoples songs - as artists this country has become a little stagnant and my aim with EYHO is to showcase NEW, INNOVATIVE, DIVERSE AND CHALLENGING work.


Style Scanner: How silly of me, of course you ran away with the circus! Tell me, what's written in your passport under 'occupation'?


Scottee: Show off. Performer. Piss taker. X


Style Scanner: Ha, ha, thanks Scottee, see you in August! 

xxx

I know one thing for sure - it WON'T be anything like this...

Tickets have now gone on sale, click here for dates.

Scottee's blog.

EYHO (Eat Your Heart Out collective).

The Big Sale @ Che Camille

Che Camille is relocating!  This Saturday (17th) is the last chance to pop into the current store and bag a bargain in The Big Sale all day-er.

Click here for more info and look out for the Evening Times and Sunday Herald this weekend to read the scoop on what and where's next for Che Camille 

(Hint: Creative colonisation of an iconic area…) 

Che Camille.

Floor 6,
Argyll Chambers,
34 Buchanan Street,
Glasgow.

Jamie Bruski Tetsill - Fashion Designer

Jamie has asked me to cordially invite you to a sample sale of his designs this weekend in Glasgow. The sale includes garments shown at London Fashion Week, a selection of male and female printed T shirts and some peices featured in Vogue and Elle... from £10!

Jamie Bruski Tetsill Sample sale

The Brunswick Hotel

Glasgow.

17-18 July

11.30am - 5.30pm

Thee Mr Mister - The Last Supper - last night @ BLOC

Paul put in a staggering 4 hour set before gifting everyone a CD he'd mixed to mark his 'Official Retirement' party! Thanks Paul.

Visit him and say hello at Music is Disease.

(More pics from the party now also up on Le Garcons de Glasgow.)

DJ Thee Mr Mister @ Un-Scene One Last Time

Paul giving me great face at last month's Un-Scene.

Last chance to hear Paul 'DJ Thee Mr Mister' before he officially goes into, in his words, "medical retirement". Really going to miss these nights.

Paul's blog Music is Disease was featured in the Guardian this week.

UN-SCENE ONE LAST TIME "The Last Supper" - tonight (Sat 10th) at Glasgow's BAR BLOC from 10.30

Come, let's break some bread, drink some wine - and dance our butts off...!!!

Wine Splodge

Wine splodge

Anastasia and Duck (Well, just Duck actually)

Stumbled on newish fashion blog Anastasia and Duck a couple of months ago and immediately loved its author's candid and unselfconscious writing style. This refreshing point of view might be a result of Glasgow born Michael (Duck) being a NON fashion insider, he's currently at Oxford doing a PHD in Materials Science! Cosmopolitan seem to like his blog too, he was recently invited to attended the bash for their 'Fashion and Style' blogger award nominees.

We've become pals on the bloggersphere, so when he tweeted on Friday that he was Glasgow bound for the weekend I wondered if he'd fancy a sneak peek of the WilliamVintage couture collection. This formal sounding 'preview soiree' was actually just a cover for an afternoon of 'frock fondling' and 'Pimms slurping' round my friend Jo's.

Can't believe I managed to crop out Duck's gold Tina Lilienthal rabbit necklace.

Anastasia and Duck blog  (Haven't got to the bottom of it yet but have a hunch Anastasia may actually be a stuffed owl...)

Anastasia and Duck on Twitter

Thanks Michael and Mama Duck for dropping by to say hello. x

*Edit* Michael has also done a post on our meeting which you can read here.

The WilliamVintage Scottish Sale...

This was the gloriously Prisoner like scene which greeted me on on arrival at the press day for the WilliamVintage Scottish Sale.

The Prisoner.

My friend Jo in a dress she bought at the recent WilliamVintage London sale. 

Dresses were on and off all day long. 

The fabulous William Banks-Blaney! Will's knowledge and enthusiasm is breathtaking, he can tell you exactly who was designing for which house at any given time, which house they'd come from and where they went next. 

DJ Heather Suttie. After meeting at his London sale, Heather hatched a plan to invite Will to do a WilliamVintage Couture sale alongside her 'Say No To Plastic' event this Sunday 3rd July at Oran Mor.

Daily Record features writer Avril Cadden, you can read the piece she wrote here.

Will explained that ladies would have the 'year' carefully unpicked from the label to disguise that it wasn't from the current season, see above and below...

Now it's our turn...

The first ever WilliamVintage Scottish Sale Facebook page.

Meet Heather and Will this Sunday 3rd July at 'Say No To Plastic' from 12pm at Oran Mor, Glasgow. 

WilliamSays blog