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A viewing of Jes Benstock’s fab doc A British Guide To Showing Off occasions this opportunity to dig out the London Belles feature from a 1973 issue of shortlived free magazine West One. Above is milliner Diane Logan in one of her outfits as contestant Rita Ritz in the 1973 Alternative Miss World. Logan – […]
Here’s a sneak iPhone peak from yesterday’s photoshoot for my forthcoming book about Tommy Roberts. Tommy’s son and accomplished photographer/cameraman Keith set up a studio in a room at his furniture emporium Two Columbia Road and shot around 50-plus garments and artefacts to go with the 300-odd images already planned for the book. I snapped […]
NAME: Kevin Rowland RESIDES: London OCCUPATION: Dexys Kevin Rowland is a very dapper gent. This is a truth acknowledged by all right-thinking people. And Kevin is his own man. How many of us can say that? He is also something of an artist, one whose connection to his muse is unadulterated by commercial concern or […]
This is from Lindsay Anderson’s final film Is That All There Is?, the 1995 autobiographical documentary which included a celebration of the lives of his friends, the formidable actresses Jill Bennett and Rachel Roberts.
Following yesterday’s post about the exhibition of Michael Hochong’s incredible clothes, the Horse Hospital’s Roger Burton has given an account of how he came by the collection and his personal connection to this “very beautiful man”.
Every Beautiful Thing… is the title of the forthcoming exhibition of extraordinary garments from the wardrobe of the late Michael Hochong, the French/Hawaiian/Chinese exquisite who, in the 70s, ran the Knightsbridge restaurant Michael’s (opposite the more famous establishment run by another Michael, Mr Chow). Hochong also lived in some style in Tangier with John Koon […]
The exclusion of designer James Tormey – and in particular his early 70s covers for a series of Raymond Chandler books – from Phil Baines’ history Penguin By Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005 has long rankled with me. I was expecting to find out more about the man whose remixes of Hollywood classic stills led […]
Clandestine London – the latest guide from Herb Lester Associates – is launched this week at a suitably discreet address in the capital. Above is the invitation postcard. And here is the badge which guarantees entry. Check out HLA’s online journal here.
David Jacobs – the US activist who says that his Situationist group Point-Blank!, not Jamie Reid, created the infamous “Nowhere Buses” punk graphic (see yesterday’s post) – is calling on the Sex Pistols art director to donate income from sales of the artwork to the Occupy movement. “Neither I nor anyone in P-B! ever wanted […]
In the week of the opening of Jamie Reid’s exhibition Peace Is Tough, the founder of the 70s American Situationist group Point-Blank! is challenging claims that Reid originated one of the key graphics of the punk aesthetic: the so-called “Nowhere buses”.